From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sending signed and encrypted mails with Gnus to outlook users fails
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 21:52:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn3wdgql.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: q5glh31cgw0.fsf@alcatel-lucent.com
Klaus Zeitler <klaus.zeitler@nokia.com> writes:
> Hello,
> when I send signed and encrypted emails with Gnus/SMime to
> outlook users, outlook shows the following error:
> Your digital ID name cannot be found by the underlying security system
>
> outlook users can read my signed emails or my encrypted ones but no
> emails that are both signed and encrypted. Even more puzzling,
> Thunderbird has no problems with these emails.
>
> I'm wondering, if this is a problem with Gnus/SMime or with outlook.
> Since Thunderbird is able to read the signed and encrypted emails
> this looks like an outlook problem, but when I use Thunderbird
> to send signed and encrypted emails they can be opened in outlook.
> Apparently Gnus/SMime is doing something differently. I'm confused.
What you might want to do is do the sign-and-encrypt MIME thing, then
call `mml-preview' to see what the actual output is. Compare that to the
raw message produced by Thunderbird, and see if anything jumps out at
you.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-23 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-23 8:34 Sending signed and encrypted mails with Gnus to outlook users fails Klaus Zeitler
2016-05-23 13:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2016-05-23 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-24 10:32 ` Klaus Zeitler
2016-05-24 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
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