The Accounts window lists your secured email accounts.
When you click on a Ciphire Account in the list, it gets highlighted, and you can use the options specific to this account in the Options window, to the right. In the Options window, you will find these categories: Account Status, Encryption and Signing, Export Account.
You can add an email account to the list by using the Create new or Import buttons below the Accounts window.
Use this function to secure an email address for the first time. If you want
to add an existing Ciphire Account to your Account window, you should use the
Import function.
During the account creation, your email address is shown in grey and italics in the Accounts window. When the Account Creation is completed, the Ciphire Account is displayed in black.
The Import function allows you to add existing Ciphire Accounts, created on other computers, to the Ciphire Accounts list on this computer.
This window show the status of the account selected in the Account list. Normal Ciphire Accounts are shown as "Account is active". One of your Ciphire Accounts is your "Primary Account". By default, it is the first email address you secured. In this window, you can disable the account:
First select a Ciphire Account in the Accounts window, then use the drop-down
menus to select your preferred encryption and signing settings for this account. The
following options are available:
Only send encrypted messages | Ciphire Mail ensures that every email leaving your computer gets encrypted by Ciphire Mail. Message encryption requires the recipient to have a valid Ciphire Account. If the recipient does not have a valid Ciphire Account, Ciphire Mail warns you that the email will not be transmitted, as it cannot be encrypted. |
Warn if encryption is not possible |
Ciphire Mail checks if the recipients of the email has a valid Ciphire Account. If yes, Ciphire Mail automatically encrypts the email before sending it. If not, Ciphire Mail warns you that the email is about to be sent unencrypted, and lets you chose to continue or cancel email sending. |
Use encryption when possible | Ciphire Mail checks if the recipients of the email has a valid Ciphire Account. If yes, Ciphire Mail automatically encrypts the email before sending it. If not, the email is not encrypted and sent plain text. |
Do not encrypt messages | Ciphire Mail does not encrypt emails sent from this email address. Your communications from this account are unsecured (plain text transmissions). |
Do not sign outgoing messages | The email you send from this email address is not digitally signed by Ciphire Mail. The recipient of the email cannot be sure that you sent exactly that email. You or the recipient cannot prove to third parties that this email communication took place. |
Sign all outgoing messages | The email you send from this email address is digitally signed by Ciphire Mail. The recipient can be sure that you sent exactly this email. You and the recipient can prove to third parties that this email communication took place. |
The Ciphire Mail client is installed with the following default strategies:
Ciphire Mail allows you to modify incoming emails so that you can immediately see the security level of the email you receive. Ciphire Mail uses tags, between brackets in the email headers, and security reports added at the bottom of the incoming email. Chose from the following options in the drop-down menu: