Vista Mail and Thawte Cert

[Alexander Hartner]

I am trying to use my Thawte Free Email Certificate to sign my emails in
Vista. I added the certificate to my personal certs using certificate
manager, but it just doesn't sign my emails.

 

[Roland Bierlein]

Buenas noches: *Alexander Hartner* escribió:

I am trying to use my Thawte Free Email Certificate to sign my emails in
Vista. I added the certificate to my personal certs using certificate
manager, but it just doesn't sign my emails.

Open the properties of the email account corresponding to the certificate
and switch to the Security tab. There, assign the certificate for both,
signing and encrypting. Then work your way out with OKs. After this, you
should be able to digitally sign emails when sent from that account if
you choose to do that when composing the message. HTH

Saludos
Roland

 

[Alex]

I tried this, but when i attempt to sign an email it reports :
"The message could not be sent. An error has occured".

I found this on the thawte website :
http://www.thawte.com/ssl-digital-certificates/technical-support/email/msie.html

Error: "This message could not be sent. An error has occurred."
For instructions to solve this problem please refer to KB solution: vs3908

which points here :
http://search.thawte.com/thawte/solution.jsp?id=vs3908

This suggest to install the thawte root certificate. However Certificate
Manager is able to verify the free mail certificate.

A further search on Google Groups revealed this suggestion:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mi...tificate+legacy&rnum=2&hl=en#6ac4091fc0c03f30

Issue solved. The issue arises from using "CGN' keys (which is the
default).
When selecting "Legacy key" the signing mechanisme works as expected.

One issue still remains: you can''t select the key for EFS (Vista reports
a
non-existing key set.

So far I have not found the setting for CGN or legacy key ?

Kind regards
Alex