149534 - Failures during LDAP cert fetching should inform the user

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

LDAP cert fetching, as being implemented in bug 119394, is rather silent in its
initial version.
Mozilla tries to fetch certs, and if there are none, or if there is a problem
with connecting to the directory, the user is not being informed, but the
application continues with informing the user.

This bug is to discuss which failures should be reported to the user, what
wording should be used, and whether the failures should be reported with dialog
boxes or by some other strategy. For example, the LDAP autocompletion pops up
some temporary error message beneath the user input.

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.