281541 - Cannot access certificate from incoming mail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Alan Batie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041216 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041216 Firefox/1.0

Mozilla (and Thunderbird) seem to make the assumption that whenever there's a
certificate on mail, it will have gotten stored when first fetched.  If there's
a problem however, so that the certs are not in the cert store, there's no way
to re-save them and it doesn't do it automatically when you restart.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive a signed message
2. Go to the certificate manager/other people's and delete their certificate


Actual Results:  
There's now no way to get their certificate back without having them send you
another email.

Expected Results:  
There should be a "save certificate" option when viewing the security info.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

Comment 3

[Karsten Düsterloh]

This is WFM - as soon as I redisplay the signed message, the cert is added to the cert storage. Also, I can export certs from the cert manager into files.

Comment 4

[Alan Batie]

You can export them if they got loaded in the first place...

But I haven't used seamonkey in years, nor do I use freebsd as a desktop any more, and I haven't noticed the problem in tbird, and given no one else seems to have seen it, I'll chock it up to some corruption in that instance.