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Receiving E-Mail

If you receive an e-mail with an encrypted message:

A. Open this encryption program.

B. Import the message from the e-mail:

1. The encrypted messages are all in attachments:

Import the attachments into the program. It depends on your e-mail program how to do it:

    1. One-Step (if possible):
      1. Copy-Paste: Select the attachments in the e-mail program and copy them (Mouse RightClick, Copy or Ctrl + C), then go to the Landing Pad and paste (RightClick, Paste or Ctrl + V).
      2. Drag-Drop: Pull the attachments into the Landing Pad zone of the program. It may be that you have to drop the files onto the desktop first and drag them from there, because a direct drag does not work.
    2. Two-Step:

If the direct ways do not work, then do the following:

      1. Save the attachments from the e-mail onto your computer.
    1. Use the methods mentioned above (Copy-Paste, Drag-Drop)
      or
      load the file into InstantCrypt with the Add File button in IntantCrypt's main form.
    2. About a MIME message: see below.

2. There is encrypted text in the e-mail text section:

Import the text into the lower text window of the encryption program. Use Copy-Paste (only).

Caution: Sometimes the e-mail program makes invisible changes to the text that makes the encrypted message undecipherable. If that happens, try to use your e-mail program in the plain or simple text mode and disable Rich Text or HTML mode.

3. You received a MIME message:

How to tell: The text part of the e-mail is blank, and you have two attachments:


a)

The first one is called Part 1.1 or has similar names. If you open this file with Windows' Notepad program, you see that it has only one line in it, namely “Version 1”.


b)

The name of the second one could be PGP.asc, but it could also be different. It is a text file, but if you open the second file, e.g. with Notepad, its text is all gibberish: this is the e-mail message text and/or attachments altogether in one encrypted file.


What to do: Ignore the first attachment. Import the second attachment as described above in section 1.


3. You received a TNEF encoded attachment ("Winmail.dat" or "Att00...dat"):

How to tell: Your receive an e-mail with one attachmentment, named "Winmail.dat" or "Att00...dat".


a)

This is an attachment sometimes created by certain Microsoft products (e.g., Outlook). It contains the whole e-mail message, including all attachments, packed into one file. Usually only other Microsoft programs can decode and read it. The unformatted e-mail text will also be put into the text part of the e-mail.


b)

InstantCrypt is able to extract the original attachments that had been packed into this file.


What to do: Import this attachment as described above in section 1 onto the Landing Pad or into the window of the encryped attachments.


C. Import all parts of one e-mail message into the same InstantCrypt message: for example, when you have two attachments and encrypted text, load text and files into the same InstantCrypt message, so they all decrypt together.

D: Decrypt