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PGP and Your Email Client
Configuring your email client to work with PGP is simple. After
you install PGP Desktop, the program lurks in the background,
waiting for you to send an email. When it detects an email in
progress, PGP Desktop will intercept the request and display
a dialog box asking if you want to secure this email account.
Answer Yes and go to the next screen. You’ll be asked to choose
between generating a new PGP key, using your existing PGP
Desktop key, or importing a PGP keypair. Choose PGP Desk-
top Key and select your private key from the list. That’s it! You
have configured this email account to work with PGP.
If you ...