368766 - SIME certificates cannot be assigned to multiple Identify Accounts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252250

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

Description

[Scott Couston]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.1-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.2pre
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.9 (20060911)

An Individual POP3 email account can contain its own S/MIME certificate which is issues and unique for every email account - This functionality is fantastic, however if you use 1 email account which has multiple valid addresses there is NO provision to assign an S/MIME certificate to each of the valid email addresses, which in transit to an ISP use the one single identify. The attached screen shot shows how some major ISP's can make use of a singular identity for storage of multiple addressed email. The email client handles multiple identities very well, however it needs an extra tab apart from PGP signatures to handle S/MIME certificales X .509

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1 Menu >Edit >Account Settings >
2.Select an account with multiple identities
3.Manage Identities > Edit OR create
There is no provision for assigning the email address with S/MIME digital certificate.

The system forces you to use Multiple identities whenever the user name of a POP3 account is a duplicate.

This situation is also possible when in house mail servers are used
Actual Results:  
manage identities should displays only PGP but not S/MIME certificates X .509

Expected Results:  
There should be an extra tab in manage identities for the assignment if S/MIME certificates X .509

Should provide another tab Before the PGP TAB to enter Digital certificates.

Comment 1

[Scott Couston]

Attachment: .jpg screen shot showing how domain email is controlled by my ISP - Note duplicate mbox for different email addresses

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Or maybe bug 278549 would have been more appropriate...