Re: [Evolution] Evolution and S/MIME

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 10:52 +0300, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
>  1. In the settings of my e-mail account under “Security,” I can specify
>     a “signing certificate” and an “encryption certificate.” However
>     encryption has to be done with the recipient’s certificate. Since
>     there is not just a single recipient, it doesn’t seem to make sense
>     to just specify a single certificate here. What do I have to enter
>     as the encryption certificate?

        Hi,
it's when you encrypt to yourself, the "Always encrypt to myself..."
option, to be able to read the message in your Sent folder, when you
send a message encrypted to Alice.

>  2. There is a checkbox “Always encrypt outgoing messages when using
>     this account.” Is there also a way to automatically encrypt outgoing
>     messages whenever Evolution knows the certificate of the recipient,
>     and not encrypt otherwise?

Unfortunately not, evolution doesn't do this. It can preselect the
sing/encrypt S/MIME / GPG when the message you reply to is
encrypted/signed, but it doesn't check certificate database before send,
neither contacts as such (they can have their own certificates stored
too).
        Bye,
        Milan