298592 - Other Peoples Credential Move To Another Tab Modifying Trust Setting - Can Not Send Secure E-mail

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Tom Wolfe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0.2

Wne I receive a Digitally Signed e-mail the sender encryption credential show up
in the "Security Manager's" "other People's" tab (as it should according to the
documentation I read). The credential is signed by a trusted authority. Initilly
it is marked as not trusted. I edit the credential and mark it as trusted.  The
credential disappears from the "Other People's" tab and show up in the "Web
Site" tab as "not trusted". I am now unable to sent secure e-mail to the other
person.
Marking the moved certificate as trusted does no do anything.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Have someone send you a digitally signed but no encrypted e-mail.
2.Got hte the "Certificate Manager's" "Other Peoples" tab and mark (edit) the
certificate as trusted.  Hit OK.
3.Go to the "Security Managers" "Web Site" tab.  The credential is now there.
4. Try to send an encrypted e-mail.

Actual Results:  
the other persons certificate move to another tab and I am unable to send
encrypted e-mail to the other person.



Expected Results:  
The certificate should have stayed in the "other peoples" tab and I should be
able to sent then encrypted e-mail.

I just downlpaded Thunderbird 1.0.2.  I did not make any changes to it
such as themes, extensions, etc.

Sending digitally signed and encrypted e-mail is esential to our infrastructure.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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