On Feb 6, 2013, at 14:20 , Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 6, 2013, at 1:53 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank goodness you are in "the know". Harry has beat me to the punch, but I >> not only want to know how this is done, is it program specific? If I >> normally use Apple's mail and if I am using the digitally signed mail and >> then use Gmail one day do the signatures cross over to the other account or >> do I have to create these with each mail account I use? > > S/MIME has been around for a long time and is on the way to becoming an IETF > standard. It is not program-specific; any program that claims to support > S/MIME should work with the standard certificates. > > I usually get a separate certificate for each email account because it's > easier to manage them that way and that's the way the free certificates are > normally given out. I think the only other person on this list who uses > S/MIME is Bill Rising. Bill, what do you do?
After the service I had used stopped giving free certs, I asked Lee what to do. He pointed me to Comodo. Since then (once?), I've had to renew it once, so I set a reminder in my todo list when it is about to expire, so that I can get another one. I use Apple's Mail.app program. The outline that Ken gave does show that it is a bit convoluted, but for 10 minutes of effort, it really is worth it. Bill
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