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<head><title>Enigmail Help: Rules Editor</title>
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<h3>Using the Enigmail Rules Editor</h3>
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<p>In the Rules Editor, you can specify defaults per recipient for enabling
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encryption, signing and PGP/MIME, and to
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define what OpenPGP key(s) to use. Each rule consists of 5 fields and is represented
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Email</span>: the e-mail(s) from
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the To:, Cc: and Bcc: fields to match. The matching works on <span
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style="font-style: italic;">substrings</span> (Further details can be
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found in the Edit Rule dialog)
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">OpenPGP Key(s)</span>: a list of OpenPGP
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Key ID's to use for the recipient</li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sign</span>: enable or disable
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message signing. This either uses or overrides what you have specified
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in the message composition window. The values are:
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<li><i>Never</i>: disable signing, even if it was enabled in the message
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composition window (overrules the other values)<br>
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<li><i>Possible</i>: leave signing as specified in the message composition
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<li><i>Always</i>: enable signing, even if it was <span
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style="font-style: italic;">not</span> enabled in the message
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">These signing settings are applied for
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all rules that match. If one of the rules disables signing, the message
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will not be signed, regardless of other rules that specify <i>Always</i>.<br>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Encrypt</span>: enable or
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disable message encryption. The allowed settings and their meaning are
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the same as for message signing.</li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">PGP/MIME</span>: enable or
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disable the use of the PGP/MIME (RFC 3156) message encoding.
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If PGP/MIME is disabled, the
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messages are encoded using "inline PGP". The allowed values and their
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meaning are the same as for message signing.
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<p>The rules are processed in the order displayed in the list. Whenever a rule
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matches a recipient and contains a OpenPGP Key ID, in addition to using the
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specified Key ID, the recipient is not considered anymore when processing
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<p><i>Note:</i> The rule editor is not yet complete. It is possible to write
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some more advanced rules by directly editing the rules file (these rules
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should then not be edited anymore in the rule editor). <a
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href="http://www.enigmail.net/documentation/pgprules_file.php" target="_blank">Further
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information</a> for directly editing the file
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is available on the Enigmail Homepage</p>
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Further help is available on the
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<a href="http://www.enigmail.net/support/" target="_blank">Enigmail Help web page</a>