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Using the Enigmail Rules Editor: Edit PGP Rule

In the Rules Editor, you can specify defaults per recipient for enabling encryption, signing and PGP/MIME, and to define what PGP key(s) to use. In this dialog, you can specify the rules for a single recipient, and for a group of recipients with very similar attributes.

These signing settings are applied for all rules that match. If one of the rules disables signing, the message will not be signed, regardless of other rules that specify Always.

The rules are processed in the order displayed in the list in the PGP Rules Editor. Whenever a rule matches a recipient and contains a PGP Key ID, in addition to using the specified Key ID, the recipient is not considered anymore when processing further rules.

Note: The rule editor is not yet complete. It is possible to write some more advanced rules by directly editing the rules file (these rules should then not be edited anymore in the rule editor). Further information for directly editing the file is available on the Enigmail Homepage


Further help is available on the Enigmail Help web page