178981 - There is no Security under EDIT->Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings->(Profile)

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Security: S/MIME, defect)

Description

[Conrad Thompson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

When attempting to setup security in mail and newsgroups (Add Mail Cert) there
is no security option under the account settings (See Help for setting up
certificates)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new mail message
2. Click on Edit
3. Click on Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings
4. Look under the mail account you are attempting to add the certificate to

Actual Results:  
There is no security option for adding certificates that have been installed.

Expected Results:  
Opened up a dialog to allow me to choose what certificate I wanted to use with
that mail account

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> PSM (security:General is for security holes but not for encryption. Please
read the component descvription)

Please read bug 176775
Do you see this if you install 1.2b in a empty directory ?
(uninstall, delete all files that are left in c:\program..\Mozilla..., reinstall)

Comment 2

[Conrad Thompson]

This was a cleen install on a clean test box, the only thing a little weird is I
am using a post Windows 2k SP3 security patch for the stock cert controls in 2k.
I will install on a stock sp3 box and test... BTW I did search the bugs before
posting and did not find the other one...

Comment 3

[Conrad Thompson]

Well I think that was it.. Installed on clean system with only stock SP3 and it
worked just fine... I uninstalled and reinstalled on Test system with post sp3
fix and still had the issue so I am also going to list with Microsoft but I am
not sure where the two would interact as the sub systems do not interact as far
as I an see.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

uninstall doesn't help.
You must manually remove not by the uninstaller deleted files !
You could also try a new profile (run "mozilla -profilemanager" to create an
additional test profile)

I don't think that this patch will afffect mozilla in this way...

Comment 5

[Conrad Thompson]

New Profile solved the issue... Guess it's not a bug after all :( Thanks....

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You can try to repeair you old profile :
delete 
Profile\Chrome\*.* (you will loose all additional installed language and Themes)
Profile\Xul.mfl
Profile\localstore.rdf
profile\key3.db
profile\cert7.db (you wil loose all installed certificates)

-> wfm

Comment 7

[Charles Rosendahl]

Verified - comment #6 or reinstallation is the only way to repair this. 
Unfortunately, this is a complex issue not easily fixed as it occurs during
installation and has several other factors involved.  In effect, while yes it
might occur, it does so randomly.

Comment 8

[Henrik Gemal]

*** Bug 179386 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***