Thursday, November 12, 2009

apple mail & SMIME

Thawte announced a while back that they were cutting off the free personal cert and at least, they are replacing it with a free VeriSign class 1. I wonder if VRSN ever made that $500M acquisition worth their while. NetSol?

Anyway, I never tried to make Apple Mail send out smime mail b4 so I thought I would give it a try. I have to say, I am not really impressed how complex Apple has made it. I guess I have come to expect Apple to make things easy.

Getting the cert into keychain wasn't hard. But.....

1. Double Click on your cert and bring it up in keychain.
2. click on the little triangle next to "Trust" to expand it.
3. In "Secure Mail" select "always trust"
4. Restart Mail.

Now you should see the little check box to the right of the screen.

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