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10.4: Use .Mac iChat certificates in Mail
Authored by: markformac on Nov 29, '05 11:03:55PM

I can not get this to work. I have the .Mac certificate and also have enabled the Preference settings as described but the security options do not appear in the Mail composition window. Any suggestions?

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Mark Brooks



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10.4: Use .Mac iChat certificates in Mail
Authored by: jeffzacharias on Dec 01, '05 08:10:49PM

You have to make sure that in your keychain you have:
1) Your certificate with your .Mac name
2) Your key with your .Mac name
3) The Apple .Mac Certificate Authority certificate.

Then you must be using your .Mac account in mail with the same .Mac name as your certificate. And you must be sending email with the return address of your .Mac email and from your .Mac account.



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10.4: Use .Mac iChat certificates in Mail
Authored by: bupkis on Dec 20, '05 02:53:57AM

I've done all that and it still doesn't work. I don't get the encryption and signing icons on new mail that I compose in Mail to be sent using my .Mac account.

Anything else I should be checking?



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10.4: Use .Mac iChat certificates in Mail
Authored by: hschickel on Dec 06, '05 04:54:14PM

The signature feature with pre 12/5/05 certs seemed a little flaky. One could make changes in-transit and the mail was still "signed". Encryption seemed to work properly (I did not test extensively). NOTE - the certs did not include the required email address. This may have caused the issues.

The post 12/5/05 certificates have the email feature specifically turned off. I'm curious to see if apple corrects the problems and turns it back on. Anyone with a 12/6/05 or later cert have working email?

Hugh



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10.4: Use .Mac iChat certificates in Mail
Authored by: thecentaur on Jan 02, '06 06:11:34AM

I can't get it to work either. iChat encryption is on. I have a new "Apple .Mac Certificate Authority" certificate in the Keychain Access

I have a certificate with my email name of type certificate. Note that it does not include the "@mac.com" portion in Key Chain manager name field - that is how iChat added it when I clicked the button. Likewise the "Common Name" in the certificate does not include the "@mac.com" portion. Don't know if it should or not, but it was created that way by iChat.

10.4.3. Mail is sending from my .Mac name and receiving for the same.

Any suggestions? ;-)



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10.4: Use .Mac iChat certificates in Mail
Authored by: thecentaur on Jan 02, '06 06:26:16AM

I did download the thawte version and the options show up perfectly, so it must be something strange with the iChat version.

Having been a Mac user since 1984 and a ][ user before that, it is little things like that where Apple needs to have everything "just work." That is one of the best features of the Mac, everything should "just work."

If I ever figure out the problem with the other cert, I'll post it...



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10.4: Use .Mac iChat certificates in Mail
Authored by: sathomasga on Sep 14, '06 09:02:41AM

This wasn't working for me because the "Search .Mac for Certificates" preferences wasn't sticking. I did a Keychain First Aid and found that my ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist file had an owner of root instead of my user name. Since Keychain First Aid couldn't fix it and chown refused, I ended up copying the file to a new one, deleting the old one, and copying the copy back. Now things work fine. (FWIW, I also tried repair permissions from the Disk Utility and that did not fix the problem.)



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