Bug 750042 - S/MIME unable to find certificate
Summary: S/MIME unable to find certificate
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evolution
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
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Assignee: Matthew Barnes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-30 10:41 UTC by Stephane Konstantaropoulos
Modified: 2012-08-07 17:06 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 1195893 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 17:06:03 UTC
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Description Stephane Konstantaropoulos 2011-10-30 10:41:04 UTC
Description of problem:

Cannot sign or encrypt with S/MIME.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

evolution-3.0.3-1.fc15.i686
nss-3.12.10-6.fc15.i686


How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Import certificate / private key pair
2. Select certificate in email account settings
3. Compose and send signed message
  
Actual results:

Evolution does not send message and shows this error message:

Could not create message.

Because "Cannot find certificate for 'ID COMODO CA Limited de'", you may need to select different mail options

Expected results:

Sign and send message

Additional info:

The certificate is a COMODO free email certificate from here:

http://www.comodo.com/home/email-security/free-email-certificate.php

It imports fine and evolution can even decrypt messages with the private key.

It works with Thunderbird.

The email is in a E= field quite deep in the cert, not in the CN, this cannot be changed as it is sent by COMODO.

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2011-11-07 09:57:39 UTC
Thanks for a bug report. I let them generate one certificate for me an, then imported it into evolution and selected in the correct email account, in Security options, for bot signing and encrypting. Then I opened a new message, selected this account for "From", and then sent myself three messages, one with S/MIME signed, one with S/MIME encrypted, and one with both S/MIME signed and encrypted options on. I understand from your description that you did exactly the same, thus the difference can be package versions, as I'm using:
   nss-3.12.10-7.fc16.x86_64
   nspr-4.8.8-4.fc16.x86_64
and evolution git master, which has no special changes in this area from yours 3.0.3, as far as I know.

I noticed one difference in Edit->Preferences->Certificates in evolution. The imported Comodo certificate shows in Purposes only "Encrypt", where my other personal certificates has there "Sign, Encrypt", though opening the certificate with "View" button shows same values at the top of the General tab, mentioning "Email Signer Certificate" and "Email Recipient Certificate".

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