265119 - Improve help when trying to sign messages without a personal cert configured

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 242878

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[piers]

When you try to sign or encrypt a message without first having set up a personal
certificate for signing/encrypting (in account manager), you get a dialog which
says:

"You need to set up one or more personal certificates before you can use this
security feature. Would you like to learn how to do this now? [Yes] [No]"

Clicking Yes or No does nothing. Perhaps the dialog could just say something like:

"You need to set up one or more personal certificates before you can use this
security feature. Would you like configure your personal certificates for this
account now? [Yes] [No]"

with clicking Yes going to the security panel in account settings. Perhaps then
account settings could have a link to a web page explaining how to get a
certificate in the first place -- Outlook has a button in its config panel "Get
a Digital ID" which goes to
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/office/redirect/10/outldigid.asp?helplcid=1033

Comment 1

[piers]

Ok, the follow error appears in the JS Console when clicking Yes:

Error: openHelp is not defined
Source File: chrome://messenger-smime/content/msgCompSMIMEOverlay.js
Line: 152

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242878 ***