Hi,

1 - If I want to sign my email messages in kmail do I need a digital certificate or just a pgp key?

2 - I tried to sing an email message to send (I used the kmail to sign it), but actually the message was ciphered. I was expecting to receive the message in plain text, and the signature of the message is in attachment. Actually, I received a ciphered message. What should I expect in kmail, when I sign messages (not encrypt them)?

3 - I'm also trying to use digital certificate with kmail. I create my own certificate with kleopatra application. But, when I restarted the computer, I lost the certificates. Where kleopatra saves the certificates?

Thanks,

3 - I'm also trying to use digital certificate with kmail. I create my own certificate with kleopatra application. But, when I restarted the computer, I lost the certificates. Where kleopatra saves the certificates?

I ran into what I think probably was a bug a couple of weeks ago. I had to delete (rename just in case) the file gnupg.conf in the directory .gnupg because it contained something it didn't understand. Don't remember exactly, might have been some conflict between another program which did the same but afterwards I deleted it it did find all my certificates again.

xeon123 wrote:Hi,

1 - If I want to sign my email messages in kmail do I need a digital certificate or just a pgp key?

Either can be used.

2 - I tried to sing an email message to send (I used the kmail to sign it), but actually the message was ciphered. I was expecting to receive the message in plain text, and the signature of the message is in attachment. Actually, I received a ciphered message. What should I expect in kmail, when I sign messages (not encrypt them)?

Check through your settings under Security > Composing. There is asetting for "Automatically encrypt messages whenever possible". Ensure that it is not checked. I sign messages routinely, but only encrypt to certain recipients, so getting the settings right should make it work for you.

3 - I'm also trying to use digital certificate with kmail. I create my own certificate with kleopatra application. But, when I restarted the computer, I lost the certificates. Where kleopatra saves the certificates?

Thanks,

Sorry, can't help with that part.