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FairEmail
FairEmail is a free and open-source email client for Android.
Setup
On Android FairEmail is available on F-Droid in a package called FairEmail. Additionally, it is available on theGoogle Play store in a package called FairEmail.
Usage
This section addresses the usage of FairEmail.
Use PGP Key for Encryption, Decryption and Signing
FairEmail can use OpenPGP to sign, encrypt or decrypt mails.
To achieve this download OpenKeychain.
To connect FairEmail with OpenKeychain navigate to the settings and select Encryption.
There the provider of OpenPGP (OpenPGP provider) can be set to OpenKeychain
(org.sufficientlysecure.keychain).
Using OpenKeychain PGP keys can then be imported and stored.
Please note that keys only need to be imported once. If the keys are changed, especially if identities are added or remove, the key inside the OpenKeychain app can simply be updated by selecting the update button. However, identities need to be removed manually sometimes.
After this is done outgoing mails can be encrypted by signed or encrypted by selecting the
Encrypt selection on the top bar when writing emails.
Decryption can be done by clicking on the padlock when inside an email that is encrypted.
Additionally, in the settings under Encryption the signing (Sign by default), encryption
(Sign and encrypt by default), decryption (Auomatically decrypt messages) and validation
(Automatically verify signed messages) can be set to occurr automatically.