Mariusz Woloszyn wrote:
Is it possible to use client certificates for authentication to smtps srver? Mozilla Thunderbird is supporting smtps, but I see no way to install client certificates and use them to authenticate...
Regards,
The word I've received is that the Thunderbird developers decided that all the UI for managing certs, keys, and the "master password" was just "too confusing" for former IE users, so they decided to leave it out.
I guess that means if you want to use client certs, you have to use the mozilla suite (e.g. moz 1.7) instead of TBird.
Sounds disingenuous. Outlook users, which is Microsoft's mail app - not IE - has quite a few crypto features. So, if anything, Outlook users will miss those features if they switch to Thunderbird
Granted, client auth for SMTP doesn't seem to be one of Outlook's features, but it does S/MIME signing and encrypting.
Also, if there is no UI for managing certs in Thunderbird, even basic SSL connections may fail if there is no way to install corporate root certs and trust them. That's going to be a much more common problem than not supporting client auth.
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