Hi

On Wednesday 11 September 2013 at 2:23:11 PM, in
<mid:54408125.20130911152...@boudicca.de>, Gunivortus Goos wrote:



> I've found the Comodo site to get a free s/mime
> certificate. 

That sounds like a good start. I have heard several people recommend 
Comodo.


> But I don't understand configuring it in
> TB in the S/Mime TLS  preferences window.

Play around with the various settings and see what happens; there are 
not all that many options. Some will be more secure than others but, 
for the time being, anything is probably better than no encryption. 
Just remember to keep a tick in "always encrypt to sender's 
certificate" just in case you ever want to read the messages you sent.

In the Account properties, at the bottom of the Options page, there 
are tick-boxes...

And you import/manage your own certificates at 
Account->Properties->General->Edit personal certificates.

And in each address book entry, on the Certificates tab, there is a 
button to import that contact's certificate(s). 


> In the address book I can at each user import a
> certificate, but which one? The public one I get from
> them or my private one?

The public one you get from them. Otherwise you would be storing the 
same certificate for each contact. 



> Sigh... in short.. I simply don't understand this and
> the Help info  from TB looks to me cryptic too. 

If the help files were too good, we would miss out on community help 
groups like this one. (-:


> Isn't
> there a kind of helping wizard, telling me step by step
> what to  do without the need of understanding what I
> did? :-)

I wouldn't think so.


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