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# Lacre Project
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# Lacre Project
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**Lacre** (wax seal in Portuguese) is an add-on for Postfix that automatically
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encrypts incoming email before delivering it to recipients' inbox for
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recipients that have provided their public keys.
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Lacre is a fork and continuation of the original work on
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Lacre is a fork and continuation of the original work on
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[gpg-mailgate](https://github.com/TheGreatGooo/gpg-mailgate) project. It is
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[gpg-mailgate](https://github.com/TheGreatGooo/gpg-mailgate) project. It is
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still actively developed and should be considered as beta -- with all APIs and
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still actively developed and should be considered as beta -- with all APIs and
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internals being subject to change. Please only use this software if you know
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internals being subject to change. Please only use this software if you know
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GnuPG well and accept occasional failures.
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GnuPG well and accept occasional failures.
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**Lacre** (wax seal in Portuguese) is a
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[content filter](https://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html)
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for Postfix that automatically encrypts incoming email using GnuPG for
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recipients that have provided their public keys.
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All incoming emails are automatically encrypted with users' public keys before
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they are saved in the inbox.
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# How it works
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# How it works
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When Postfix receives a message, it "forwards" that message to Lacre.
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Lacre is a [content filter](https://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html). This
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means, that when Postfix receives a message, it "forwards" that message to
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Lacre and if Lacre delivers it to a given destination, the message arrives to
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recipient's inbox.
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Then, Lacre does the following:
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After receiving the message, Lacre does the following:
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1. If message already is encrypted, it just delivers the message immediately.
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1. If message already is encrypted, it just delivers the message immediately.
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2. Checks the list of recipients, finds their public keys if any were
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2. Checks the list of recipients, finds their public keys if any were
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