115335 - No error message when sign/encrypt without selecting the cert

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 129100

(MailNews Core :: Security: S/MIME, defect, P2)

Description

[Antonio Lam]

Build: 2001-12-14 trunk

In the following two situations:
  1. No personal certificate in the Cert Manager.
  2. Personal certificate in the Cert Manager, but is not selected in the Mail 
     Account Setting|Secure Mail preference.

When I tried to sign/encrypt the message in the compose window, by selecting 
Option|Security option, there is no error dialog pop up stating that there is no 
personal certificate installed in the browser. 

The only hint now is the "Digital Sign" or "Always Encrypt" option is not 
checked.

Comment 1

[Antonio Lam]

*** Bug 115333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Stephane Saux]

Needs QA.  Also UI implementation will probably take care of this.

Comment 3

[Stephane Saux]

S/MIME bugs are automatically nsbeta1 candidates. (this is a bulk update - there
may be some adjustment of the list).

Comment 4

[John Unruh]

*** Bug 116624 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Stephane Saux]

nsbeta1-

Comment 6

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

Let's talk about the case, where you have never selected a cert in the Email
security preferences, but you use the UI to enable security in a composed message.

The code I'm adding with bug 129100 reacts to that situation, and will show an
informational message to the user. It will also prevent the option from becoming
active.

I'm making this bug dependent on 129100, so that you can retest when that code
has landed.

However, I'm not sure what should happen when you indeed have a cert configured,
but that cert is currently not available. That could have mutliple reasons. One
is, you deleted your cert, and it would be clever, if the UI would tell you
about that.

If you think we should support that, please open a new bug titled "trying to
compose a message with encryption enabled, but the configured cert is not
available", please file a new bug.

Note, however, that this decision is tricky to make, because one's cert could be
"temporarily" unavailable, because your cert lives on a smartcard, and is
currently not plugged in to your card reader.

I'm resolving this bug as a duplicate of the UI bug.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129100 ***

Comment 7

[John Unruh]

Verified dupe.