320121 - send encrypted mail wrongly requires sender certificate information

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230576

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Frank J. Andersen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

I installed a certificate for  a mail reciever to use for encrypting mail to this person. I do not have e certificate myself, but only wants to make sure only intende reciever can read mail..

This should be easy - and TBird imports certificate without problem.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1: When i select 'view security info' recivers certificate is shown correctly. 
2: When i select 'Encrypt this message' i get pop-up: 'You need to setup one or more personal certificates before you can use this security feature. Would you like to do so now ?'
3: When i answer 'No' i return to new mail
4: When i answer 'yes' i am forwarded to'Account settings' 'securuty' tab... And to move on i have to to select MY (sender) certificate in 'encryption'.

Actual Results:  
No encryption possible

Expected Results:  
Mail should be encrypted - after step 2!

There is no need for sender certificate to encrypt a mail - and i have no personal certificate.

It should be changed to allow encryption without checking sender certificate...

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230576 ***