---
name: "claws-mail-pgpmime"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "claws-mail-pgpmime"
version: "3.17.3-2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/claws-mail-pgpmime"
---

# claws-mail-pgpmime(1)

Handling of PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails.

## NAME

claws-mail-pgpmime - Handling of PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails.

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **claws-mail-pgpmime** plugin.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**claws-mail-pgpmime** is a plugin (loadable module) for the Claws Mail mailer.

This plugin allows decrypting mails, verifying signatures and sign or encrypt your own mails using PGP/MIME.

It requires GnuPG and GPGME.

## USAGE

Before using a plugin you must instruct Claws Mail to load it on startup.

For this you must go “Configuration” menu on main window toolbar, open “Plugins...” dialog, click on the “Load plugin...” button and select the plugin file, named pgpmime.so, and press the “Open” button.

## FILES

/usr/lib/claws-mail/plugins/pgpmime.so

The loadable module for claws-mail-pgpmime.

\~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

Configuration file for GnuPG, read **man gpg** for details.

## BUGS

Please use **reportbug claws-mail-pgpmime** for reporting Debian bugs for this package.

The upstream BTS can be found at **http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi**.

## SEE ALSO

[**claws-mail**(1)](/claws-mail/1.md), [**claws-mail-extra-plugins**(1)](/claws-mail-extra-plugins/1.md), [**gpg**(1)](/gpg/1.md)

## AUTHORS

**The Claws Mail Team** \<theteam@claws-mail.org\>

Wrote the **claws-mail-pgpmime** plugin.

**Ricardo Mones** \<mones@debian.org\>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2008 Ricardo Mones\

This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.