If you use the Mail app on your Mac for work, or just want more security in your messages, then you will want to look at encrypting them. But how do you do this in Mail for Mac? It's a little complex, but we'll show you how to do so in this guide.

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Before you are able to start sending and receiving encrypted emails, you will need to have a personal certificate in your Keychain. To get one, do the following:

1. Launch Keychain Access on your Mac (Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access).

2. Click Keychain Access in the menubar.

3. Hover over Certificate Assistant and click Request a Certificate From a Certificate Authority.

4. Fill out the request form with your own information.
   • For CA Email Address, you should check services like VeriSign, Inc. or RSA Data Security Inc. These are companies that verify the identities of computers on a network and issues certificates.
5. Choose whether or not you want the certificate emailed to the CA or Saved to Disk.

6. Click Continue.

7. If you chose Saved to Disk, specify the location to save to.

8. Locate the certificates and open them with Certificate Assistant.

9. Select the Issuing CA from the drop-down menu.
   • You can choose to override the defaults if need be.

10. Click Continue.

11. Select the Create a certificate for yourself option.

12. Click Continue.

13. Double check the information, and then click Create.

    • You should select Self Signed Root as the default.
    • Certificate type should be S/MIME (Email).
14. It will prompt you for confirmation. Click Continue.

15. Your certificate has been created, so click Done.

Once you create your certificate, it is automatically added to Keychain.

How do I send digitally signed and encrypted emails on Mail for Mac

When you have your certificate, it means that your recipients can verify you as the sender, adding another layer of security. However, to send encrypted messages, the recipient's certificate must be in your keychain.

1. Launch Mail on your Mac.

2. Click on the Compose button, or File > New Message to create a new message.

3. In the From field, click and choose the email account that you have a personal certificate for in your keychain.

4. In the subject line, there will be a checkmark box at the end on the account with a certificate. Click the checkmark button to turn on your digital signature.

5. Address the email message to your recipients.
   • The Encrypted symbol (closed lock) will appear next to the Signed icon if you have a certificate for every single recipient that the message is being addressed to.
   • If you do not have the certificate for all recipients, then the message must be sent unencrypted.

How to receive digitally signed and encrypted emails on Mail for Mac

Again, remember that you need to provide senders with your own verified certificate in order to receive encrypted messages.

Mail for Mac has a Security field in the header area that indicates whether a message is signed or encrypted.

• For signed messages, you will see a signed icon (checkmark) in the header. If you need to, just click the icon to view certificate details.

  • Messages that are altered after they've been signed will have issues with verification.
• For encrypted messages, a lock icon appears in the header. If you have your private key in Keychain, the message will be decrypted for viewing. Otherwise, it won't be decrypted.

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You can use S/MIME certificates, also called 'S/MIME Certs' or 'Personal Certificates', with most email clients to digitally sign and/or encrypt email messages. At Indiana University, S/MIME certificates are provided by the InCommon Certificate Service. For instructions on getting a certificate, see Get an S/MIME certificate for digital email signatures at IU.

When you receive your certificate from InCommon, it will be encrypted in the PKCS 12 format (.p12 or .pfx), using the strong passphrase ('PIN') you created for it at the time of request. You will need this passphrase to install the certificate.

Also, for details about potential issues with various devices and applications when using digital signatures, be sure to refer to Known issues with digitally signed email at IU.

View a video about using digital signatures in Apple Mail and Outlook for macOS.

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Install in macOS

1. Double-click the file downloaded from the InCommon Certificate Manager.
2. Keychain Access will prompt you for the certificate passphrase; use the second, 'PIN' passphrase, not the first 'request' passphrase.

The certificate will be installed on your Mac and will appear in the 'My Certificates' section of Keychain Access. The certificate is now available for Apple Mail, Outlook, and other applications that can use client certificates.

Use your certificate with Apple Mail

Use these instructions to enable Apple Mail to use client certificates to digitally sign and encrypt email.

Enable digital signing and encryption

1. If you have just installed your certificate on your Mac, close Mail and then restart it.
2. Begin composing an email message. You should see the 'Signed' icon () in the lower right of the message header (this indicates the message will be signed). If you don't see the 'Signed' icon, select Customize (in the lower left of the message header), and add the 'Lock' and 'Signed' icons.

Sign email

To send a signed message, verify that the 'Signed' icon has a checkmark (✔) in it . If the 'Signed' icon has an x instead, your message will not be signed.

You may not want to sign messages to mailing lists, because S/MIME digital signatures are attachments, which some lists do not accept.

Encrypt email

If you have the public certificate for the user or users to whom the messages is addressed, you will be able to encrypt the email message: In the lower right of the message header, click the open lock icon to lock it; when the icon is locked, your email message will be encrypted.

If you do not have certificates for everyone to whom the message is addressed, you will be prompted to send the message unencrypted.

Use your certificate with Outlook for macOS

Use these instructions to enable Outlook to use client certificates to digitally sign and encrypt email.

Enable digital signing and encryption

1. If you have just installed your certificate on your Mac, close Outlook and then restart it.
2. From the Outlook menu, select Preferences > Accounts. Select your IU email account, click Advanced, and then select the Security tab.
3. In the 'Digital signing' section, select your certificate from the drop-down menu.
4. For 'Signing algorithm', the default value of SHA-256 is appropriate for most situations.
5. For the best usability, enable the following options:
   • Sign outgoing messages
   • Send digitally signed messages as clear text
   • Include my certificates in signed messages
6. In the 'Encryption' section, select your certificate from the drop-down menu.
7. For 'Encryption algorithm', ASE-256 is the best option. It is not necessary to check Encrypt outgoing messages; each email message can be optionally encrypted when you compose it.
8. IU does not currently use the 'Certificate authentication' options, so do not set this.
9. Click OK to save your changes and exit Outlook Preferences.

Sign email

By default, your email messages will be digitally signed. To indicate signing, a lock icon with the text 'This message will be digitally signed' will appear in the lower left of the message header when you compose an email message:

If you do not want to sign a message, from the Options tab of the mail message, click Sign so that it is not selected.

You may not want to sign messages to mailing lists, because S/MIME digital signatures are attachments, which some lists do not accept.

Encrypt email

Address and compose your email message. From the Options tab of the mail message, click Encrypt so that it is selected.

If Outlook is unable to find certificates for everyone to whom the message is addressed, you will be prompted to search the IU Active Directory for user certificates. If Outlook is still unable to find certificates for all addressees, you will be prompted to send the message unencrypted.

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Use a group account certificate

To use an S/MIME certificate with a group account, install and enable the certificate as you would for a standard account.

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• If the profile you are using in your email client is the group account, there should be no issues.
• If the profile you are using in your email client is your personal account and you want to send email from the group account, in your email message, open the 'From' field and enter the group account address. If your personal account has 'send as' rights for the group account, there should be no issues. If you are unsure whether you have 'send as' rights, contact your IT Pro.