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Tiger Envelopes: Accounts


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Tiger Envelopes can add privacy to as many email accounts as you'd like. Just add an account for each email address you want protected.

If you use a mail client that Envelopes can configure such as Windows Outlook, Outlook Express for Windows, Thunderbird, or KMail, be sure that your mail client is closed while you add new accounts to Tiger. Otherwise, it's a good idea to have your mail client running so you can copy and paste the data directly to the control panel's dialog boxes.

All the information needed for this dialog box should be available in the Preferences or Options section of your mail client.

  1. If there is a drop down list of email addresses, select the address you want. All the other fields except the passphrase will be automatically filled in for you. Be sure to take a look at the settings.
  2. If you don't see the email address that you want in the drop down list, then click the Add button. Type the email address exactly as your mail client has it.

    As soon as you move your cursor to the next field, all the other fields will be filled in with reasonable defaults. Be sure to verify that each field contains the correct information by looking at your mail client's settings for this email account.

  3. If you selected an email address from the drop down list, then don't change the Incoming mail server (also known as the POP3 or IMAP server) or Outgoing mail server (often referred to as the SMTP server) information unless you're really confident that the preselected server is incorrect.

    Otherwise, either select the correct incoming name from the drop down list or click the New button. Enter a name for the server. In general, you want this to be an exact match of the "host" information for the server in your mail client.

    Don't change any of the other information in the server fields unless you're sure.

  4. If you already have created an encryption key for this email account, then type in the corresponding passphrase.

    If you haven't created any encryption keys and you are using BC or GPG as your encryption program, then you have 2 options.

    1. Let Tiger Envelopes automatically create a passphrase for you. Just leave both the "Passphrase" and "Retype" fields blank.
    2. Create your own passphrase for the account. Type it in both the "Passphrase" and the "Retype" fields. Remember to make this a long and difficult series of characters so no one can simply guess your passphrase.

    The public key for every new key that Tiger Envelopes creates for you is stored in a text file in the PublicKeys folder of your Envelopes data folder. The file name is the email address plus the name of the encryption program (e.g., bc, gpg) plus a .pub extension. For example, if Tiger Envelopes added a new BC key ID for myemail@mycompany.com, the public key will be in a file named myemail@mycompany.com.bc.pub which will be in the PublicKeys folder.

    If you're using PGP, then you must manually create a encryption key ID for this email account before you proceed. In other words, you must open up a console window and use PGP directly to create a key. The command is either "pgp -kg" or "pgpk -g", depending on your pgp version. See PGP's docs if you have any questions. Then come back to the Envelopes installer and enter the passphrase that you gave PGP.

  5. Click the OK button after you enter all the information. Tiger Envelopes saves the settings for your new email address when you exit the control panel.

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