149212 - Need pref to control LDAP certificate fetching

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

The patch as being implemented in bug 119394 re-uses the pref for mail/news
addressing, which controls whether a directory server will be used for looking
up recipients (autocompleteion), and which particular will be used.

The user should be able to control independently of that pref, whether cert
fetching should be done and from where.

We should have a prefs that controls, whether cert fetching should be done at all.


In addition, do we think a user would ever want to fetch certificates from a
different server than being used for address autocompletion?

If we don't think that's possible, then we could just reuse the directory server
configured for autocompletion.


However, could a user want to NOT use address autocompletion, but still fetch
certificates from a directory?

That's hard to believe, but if that needs to be a supported configuration, then
we have a UI problem. The pref to conifgure the directory would be disabled.

So in the end, it might make sense to allow configuration of a certificate
server for S/Mime.


Next question is: Should this be an account specific configuration? I think it
should not, it should be a global S/Mime pref.
Right now we don't have any non-account-specific S/Mime prefs, so we'd need a
new section in email prefs.


Comments welcome.

Comment 1

[John G. Myers]

Mass reassign ssaux bugs to nobody

Comment 2

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Mass change "Future" target milestone to "--" on bugs that now are assigned to
nobody.  Those targets reflected the prioritization of past PSM management.
Many of these should be marked invalid or wontfix, I think.