claws-mail-pgpmime - handle PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails

The Claws Mail Team <theteam@claws-mail.org> Wrote the claws-mail-pgpmime plugin. Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> Wrote this manpage for the Debian™ system.

Copyright © 2008-2020 Ricardo Mones This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. 4.3.1-1 2025-03-08 CLAWS-MAIL-PGPMIME(7)

This manual page documents briefly the claws-mail-pgpmime package. This manual page was written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. claws-mail-pgpmime is a plugin (loadable module) for the ClawsMail mailer. This plugin allows decrypting mails, verifying signatures and sign or encrypt your own mails using PGP/MIME. It requires GnuPG and GPGME.

~/.gnupg/gpg.conf Configuration file for GnuPG, read gpg and gpgconf manual pages for details.

claws-mail-pgpmime - handle PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails

gpg(1), gpgconf(1), claws-mail(1), claws-mail-pgpinline(7), claws-mail-extra-plugins(7).

Before using a plugin you must instruct ClawsMail to load it on startup. For this you must go “Configuration” menu on main window toolbar, open “Plugins...” dialog, click on the “Load plugin...” button and select the plugin file, named pgpmime.so, and press the “Open” button.