Sending Secure E-mail

In Windows Mail, you can set security options to send e-mail messages with a digital ID or encryption. A digital ID verifies your identity to your recipients in the same way a picture ID verifies your identify when you write a check. Before you can send a digitally signed e-mail, you need to get a digital ID from an independent certification authority, which you can access from Windows Mail. Encryption prevents others on the Internet from intercepting and reading your e-mail. Before you can send an encrypted e-mail, your Windows Contacts needs to contain a digital ID for each recipient, which allows them to decrypt the message for reading.

Set Options to Send Secure E-mail in Windows Mail

Click the Start button, then click Windows Mail.

Click the Tools menu, then click Options.

Click the Security tab.

To get a digital ID, click Get Digital ID, and then follow the instructions.

To encrypt e-mail, select the Encrypt contents and attachments for all outgoing messages check box.

To digitally sign e-mail, select the Digitally sign all outgoing messages check box.

Click Advanced.

Select the check boxes to include my digital ID and add sender’s certificates to my Windows Contacts.

To check for a revoked digital ID, click the Only when online option.

Click OK.

Click OK again.

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