455180 - Management a certificate in multiple identities

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252250

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Renato S. Yamane]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071618 Iceweasel/3.0.1 (Debian-3.0.1-1)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.16 (20080707)

If you have multiple identities:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Multiple_Identities

And one certificate as sold by Verisign:
http://www.verisign.com/authentication/individual-authentication/digital-id/index.html

Is possible associate this certified ONLY in main account and NOT in secondary identifie.

Enigmail manage this very well, because it add a option "Secure" in ALL identities, making possible choose your GPG Key, BUT is still IMPOSSIBLE choose others certificate (as from Verisign).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Creat a identifie (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Multiple_Identities)

2. Create a trial (60 days) certificate (http://www.verisign.com/authentication/individual-authentication/digital-id/index.html)

3. Export this certificate from Firefox to Thunderbird (to make possible sign/crypt) your e-mails.

4. Create a new message (using your second identifie, choosing it in "To" field) and try sign this message with your Verisign Certificate.
Actual Results:  
Is impossible use Certificates to sign/crypt your messages if you don't use your MAIN identitie.

Expected Results:  
To fix this is necessary developers add an option "Secure" in ALL identities, as Enigmail do, to make possible choose your certificate in others identities.

Comment 1

[Renato S. Yamane]

On item "4" (Steps to reproduce), when you see:
"...in TO field..."

Correct is:
"...in FROM field..."

Best regards,
Renato S. Yamane

Comment 3

[Renato S. Yamane]

An work-arround to fix this problem is using this add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/8814

Best regards,
Renato