Default email signing with OS X Mail

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I have both a GPG key and an SSL certificate. I am able to sign emails by choosing OpenPGP or S/MIME in the upper right corner of the window:

Signing drop-down

I can then activate the signing by clicking the appropriate icon:

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Now my question(s):

  • is it possible to sign by default? (always unless specified)
  • is it possible to sign by default only for a given account?

Edit 1

The ideal setup with three accounts would be

  1. account 1 always signs with S/MIME (the address is in the S/MIME certificate)
  2. account 2 always signs with GPG (the address is in the GPG certificate)
  3. account 3 do not sign (the address is not present in any certificate)

Edit 2

The priority is the S/MIME certificate, I could also live without GPG where only account 1 is using the S/MIME certificate by default.

Edit 3

I was now able to set S/MIME as the default (see Define the security method to be used, in the GPGMail 2 hidden settings FAQ). When I then switch to account 2 (the one with the GPG key) the default falls back to GPG (as the address of account 2 is not present in the S/MIME certificate).

defaults write org.gpgtools.gpgmail DefaultSecurityMethod -int 2

So far so good, now I just have to find out how to sign by default with S/MIME (and not with GPG)

Best Answer

I have some email accounts that use S/MIME and some that use GPG. When I select to use the email address configured for GPG, GPG email signing is enabled by default. When I select to use the email address configured for S/MIME, the S/MIME email signing is enabled by default.

I had to enable some settings in the GPG preference section of Mail.app, but nothing else.

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