345801 - Message cannot be encrypted using a second ientity

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252250

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

Thunderbird cannot hold a different encryption/signing certificate for each identity (as far as know). So I use the same certificate for both identities (this Thawte certificate holds both e-mail adresses)

Mail encryption and signing works perfectly with the primary identity, but when mail is send from a secondary identity, Thunderbird wants to set up a new Personal Certificate but there is only place for one, and in this case only one is needed; Thunderbird refuses to send encrypted mail from the second identity. If I swap the 2 identies then it will encrypt from the other identity since it is now the primary.

Can you please have a look at this? The multiple identities from Thunderbird is such a great feature, it would be great if it could also be used with encryption/signing certificates.

Thanks.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create 2 identities
2. Import Signing and Encrytion Certificate wich holds both e-mail adresses
3. Send encrypted or signed mail from the first identity (works fine)
4. Send encrypted or signed mail from the second identity (doesn't work)

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird will not send the encrypted mail but suggests to set up the certificate once more.

Expected Results:  
It should use the certificate for the second identity like it does for the first.

It would be even better if for every identity a separate certificate could be used.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 252250 ***

Comment 2

[Hooonza]

You must set a signature for all identities. USe S/MIME the Security for Multiple Identities extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/8814).