Ran into this quirky behaviour sometime ago. Dr Henson advised setting "Security->Messenger->Certificate for your Signed and Encrypted Messages:" to point to the user cert. ( It may look like its already selected: click on it anyway. ) Check if this helps. - mukund Mario Fabiano wrote: > I use a 4.7 Communicator under RH 6.1 Linux box. > I have built a my own CA based on openssl-0.9.4 and modssl-apache. > > I get SSL and S/MIME certificates that work with Netscape both using an > html page and a perl script that processes the SPKAC request, but also > building PKCS10 requests offline using openssl. > In this second case I send the request to the CA, which signs the CSR > and sends back the certificate; then I build a PKCS12 which import into > Netscape database. > > While the certificate obtained with the first method always works, the > PKCS12 sometimes works and sometimes does not. I can always use it into > an SSL3 session, but when I try to sign an S/MIME message sometimes get > the following error message: > > "This message cannot be encrypted or signed because you do not yet have > an email certificate. Click on the "security" icon for more information > and certificates." > > I have attached two certificates obtained with the PKCS12 method. > Can someone explain why one (n° 51) works and the other (n° 49) does > not? ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]