905555 - S/MIME help talks only about openssl where Thunderbird GUI would work also

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Extensions, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen) (not reading bugmail until 2025-02-06)]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=securemail/help.html instructs the user to use openssl to extract a .pem public part from a .p12 file. It would be nice to also say that if you've imported the .p12 file into Thunderbird, you can export a .pem from the GUI by viewing the cert and clicking the export button from the cert viewer window.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Draft some text and I'll make a patch :-)

Gerv

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

As per comment 1 :-)

Gerv

Comment 3

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen) (not reading bugmail until 2025-02-06)]

 * Open Preferences in Thunderbird.
 * Activate the Advanced pane.
 * Activate the Certificates tab.
 * Press the button View Certificates.
 * Press the Import button.
 * Open your .p12 file.
 * Enter the password for unlocking the .p12 if asked.
 * Select the line in the tree widget that represents the certificate you imported.
 * Press the View button.
 * Activate the Details tab.
 * Press the Export button.
 * Choose where to save the .pem file.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Attachment: Patch v.1

Comment 5

[:glob ✱]

Comment on attachment 8383590 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v.1

Review of attachment 8383590 [details] [diff] [review]:
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r=glob, with the following comments to be fixed prior to commit.

::: extensions/SecureMail/template/en/default/pages/securemail/help.html.tmpl
@@ +50,5 @@
> +<li>Press the button View Certificates.
> +<li>Press the Import button.
> +<li>Open your .p12 file.
> +<li>Enter the password for unlocking the .p12 if asked.
> +</ul>

all these <li> tags need to be closed

@@ +66,5 @@
> +<li>Select the line in the tree widget that represents the certificate you imported.
> +<li>Press the View button.
> +<li>Activate the Details tab.
> +<li>Press the Export button.
> +<li>Choose where to save the .pem file.

</li> here too

@@ +73,5 @@
> +<p>Paste the contents of the .pem file into the SecureMail text field in [% terms.Bugzilla %].</p>
> +
> +<h3>OpenSSL</h3>
> +
> +<p>Or, if you have the OpenSSL package installed, do the following:</p>

s/the OpenSSL package/OpenSSL/
"package" doesn't apply to all os's.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Gerv