271550 - Can not import expired certificates

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Thomas Kessler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: 

Hi,

I'm unable to import my expired certificate (PKCS12) into Thunderbird's
Certification Manager. 

I Tried: 

Certification Manager -> Your Certificates -> Import

Then I can select the certificate file and enter the required password. No error
message occurs, but the certificate is not included in the Certification Manager.

I need this feature because I require the certificate to read my old encrypted
mails.

Regards,
 Thomas

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Hanno Fietz]

I experience the same problem. My Thunderbird version is the recent 1.0 release,
but the problem was present in 0.9 as well. I don't think it has anything to do
with the expiration date since the certificate in question is quite new and
seems to work perfectly with Firefox. Also, Thunderbird will not import my CA's
root certificate, which Firefox did.

Steps to reproduce for certificate import:
1. Go to Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Certificates
2. Select "Manage Certificates", then choose "Your Ceritificates" and click "Import"
3. Select a *.p12 file (mine was a certificate backup from Firefox)
4. Password dialog for "Software Security Device" pops up, enter password
5. Password dialog for backup file pops up, enter password

Steps to reproduce for CA root certificate import:
1. Go to Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Certificates
2. Select "Manage Certificates", then choose "Authorities" and click "Import"
3. Select a *.crt or *.der file (my CA is CAcert.org)
4. choose which identities the CA can identify
5. Optionally, view certificate details: Thunderbird can obviously understand
the file
6. Click "OK"

Expected results:
Certificate / CA appears in "Your certificates" / "Authorities"

Actual results:
They don't.

Comment 2

[Physeter]

I have a similar problem on Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206): I cannot import
a valid certificate into Other People's certificate store. The same certificate
is imported without problems into "Authorities" store. 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Certificates
2. Select "Manage Certificates", then choose "Other People's" and click "Import"
3. Select a *.der or *.pem file
4. Click OK
 
Expected results:
Certificate appears in "Other People's"
 
Actual results:
Nothing happens.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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