199949 - Fail to retrieve a user cert from a Netscape 6 Directory

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: LDAP Integration, defect)

Description

[John Berger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Netscape 6 LDAP directory stores all X.509 certs. Using mail with directory 
service fails to retrieve the users cert, so that when send is initiated, we 
get a can not find certificate error .. This forces the user to manually import 
the recipients public key ..  ldap / mail interface should retrieve the cert 
from the directory, then allow sending of encrypted /signed mail ..

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. define a properly set up directory server in mail
2. enter an email addy in the directory with properly issued certs
3. press send ...

Actual Results:  
mail program does not use certs

Expected Results:  
mail should sign/encrypt the email as specified ..

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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