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I am so confused. Okay, so I am trying to learn how to set up and use PGP. I downloaded the GPG Suite. I was attempting to follow the instructions here but I'm lost. I am on a Mac, running Snow Leopard (10.6.8). I successfully installed the program. I then set up a new email account as I want to have an anonymous one to use for encypted messages. I set up one at ghostmail.com. I then followed the instructions and used that email address as the one the instructions show on the first screenshot at the PGP program help page. I entered the email address I set up, hit generate key and it worked as shown.
I then went to the next step of "Your first encrypted mail". There's where I got completely lost. First they tell you "All you need for this first test is a sec/pub key in GPG Keychain matching the mail address used in Mail.app." I have no idea what mail.app is. After fumbling about for about a half hour, I got the idea that it may be the mail program through my Mac -- since when you search finder for "mail.app" it comes up. I've never used that once in my life (I use all web based mail directly), but I am guessing that there's some way to set an online mail server to go through that program? Anyway, I fumbled about some more attempting this. I went through the steps to set up that mail program to feed to the email I set up. On the first screen it says:
Full Name: Email Address: Password:
Respectively, I put in something random for my name (since I'm trying to set up something anonymous), put in the ghostmail email address, and for the password, I used the password I set up for that ghostmail account. When I clicked continue, the next screen then says "account type" and "POP" is filled in, but I could choose, in a dropdown, IMAP, Exchange 2007 or Exchange IMAP. I left POP in. It asks me to fill in "incoming mail server" so I put in the ghostmail address again (the user name and password fields below those were still populated with the ghostmail name and password I had entered). I then click continue and it says every time "The POP server "NAME@ghostmail.com" is not responding. Try checking the network connection..."
I have no idea if this is even what was meant when the help page told me to go to "mail.app", and if I'm even close to on the right track, I need handholding.--108.46.96.158 (talk) 04:02, 22 November 2015 (UTC)