Re: [Evolution] S/MIME certification from Sectigo (through Comodo)

[Bryan Everly <bryan theeverlys com>]

Thanks Peter.

I was able to do exactly what you suggested.  The only oddity was that the exported certificate from Outlook was still a .pfx format; however, it forced me to put a password on the certificate.  When I imported in Evolution with the password it worked flawlessly.  I almost wonder if there is some problem with importing certificates that do not have a password?

Thanks again.

On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 21:16 -0500, Peter Franzek via evolution-list wrote:

Hello,

I had the same issue a couple of years ago. The certificate would not

import into Evolution and no error was displayed. The certificate could

be successfully imported into MS Outlook. In my case, Evolution did not

like the format of the original certificate.

To resolve the issue, I had to first import the certificate into MS

Outlook, then export it from Outlook in a different format, before

Evolution would accept it. I believe the original certificate file was

a ".pfx" format, and the exported format was ".pem".

No error is produced by Evolution because the failure occurs in an

included library, and that library is not publishing any details.

I hope this helps you find a solution.

Best regards,

Peter

On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 14:06 +0000, Bryan Everly wrote:

Hi,

I purchased an individual S/MIME certificate from Comodo (it appears

to have been fulfilled by Sectigo) and was able to use it

successfully in Outlook on Windows 10.  I'm trying to import it into

Evolution and I successfully select it, then am prompted for the

password (there is none) and then I get no error but the certificate

does not show up on the list on screen.  Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

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