On Mon, Apr 18, 2005, Christian Gütter wrote: > Hi Steve, > > thanks for your answer. > > > 0.9.7c is old, you should use the latest version. 0.9.7g if possible. > > Will do that. > > > If you do: > > openssl smime -verify -in destination -out message > > it will attempt to verify the message (which will probably give an error > > becaue it can't find the signing CA) and write the content out to the file > > 'message'. > > Unfortunately, this does not work for me. > OpenSSL throws the following error: > > Verification failure > 2472:error:21075075:PKCS7 routines:PKCS7_verify:certificate verify > error:pk7_smi > me.c:222:Verify error:self signed certificate in certificate chain > > > The file 'message' should contain the original email with any attachments. > > The file 'message' is empty then (0 bytes). > Do you know what is going on? > >
Add -noverify to the command line options. That will disable certificate verification: which is the cause of that error message. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Funding needed! Details on homepage. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
