Routine

This section controls what Mollusc 5 does every time you left-click the Mollusc 5 tray icon. Use this for what you want Mollusc 5 to do with most of your messages.. To confirm any changes you make, click the Ok button.

The options are in several groups.

Outward Mail Options

Encrypt Make it impossible for anyone other than the intended recipients to read the message. This is the most common usage.

Sign Make it impossible for anyone to tamper with your message without detection. This also makes it difficult for you to disavow the message.This is quite common in public forums when it's important for people to believe that they are reading your exact words - not a forgery.

Encrypt and Sign Make it impossible for anyone to tamper with your message without detection. This also makes it difficult for you to disavow the message. only the intended recipients can read your message.This is useful to prevent unauthorised people reading your words or forging them.

See also How to send PGP messages

Outward Forum/News/Mailing List Posting Options

Inward Messages

There are no options relating to inward messages. This is because in nearly all cases, Mollusc 5 and PGP automatically decide on the correct processing.

See also: How to receive PGP messages

Advanced topic

Prefer key import over message reading