[Alpine-info] Signing with S/MIME.

[Carlos E. R.]

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El 2023-11-18 a las 08:14 -0700, Eduardo Chappa escribió:


> On Fri, 17 Nov 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote:

>

>>  I have S/MIME configured in Thunderbird.

>>

>>  What are the steps to transfer or copy my key or certificate from

>>  Thunderbird to Alpine?

>>

>>  The certificate I have has the extension .p12. I tried copying the file to

>>  ~/.alpine-smime/private, but alpine says it doesn't find any certificate

>>  for signing.

>

> Dear Carlos,

>

>  from the main screen, press "?", and search for S/MIME, then press "Return" 

> to read general help on S/MIME. This will take you to the following link 

> x-alpine-help:h_mainhelp_smime, which you can follow directly if you are 

> reading this message with Alpine. That link will tell you all you need to 

> know, including what to do with your .p12 certificate.


Ah, thanks! :-)

There is something not clear. The help text says:

«After you have exported these certificates and keys, you can use the 
import command in Alpine, from the S/MIME configuration screen, to import 
these certificates into Alpine. They will be available for use as soon as 
you import them.»


I suppose these are the import commands. But what is "container"?


 	---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 	Be careful with the following commands, they REPLACE contents in the target
 	---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 	Transfer public certs FROM directory TO container
 	Transfer private keys FROM directory TO container
 	Transfer CA certs FROM directory TO container

 	Transfer public certs FROM container TO directory
 	Transfer private keys FROM container TO directory
 	Transfer CA certs FROM container TO directory


I assume "container" is the directory where I did the conversions. Hum, 
no, seems to be some global systemwide place that is not mentioned where 
it is. And the commands (second group) don't seem to do anything.


Is there some other import command somewhere?


So I just copied:

MAIL at ADDRESS.key  ->   ~/.alpine-smime/private/
MAIL at ADDRESS.crt  ->   ~/.alpine-smime/public/
certificate-ca.crt ->  ~/.alpine-smime/ca/    (is this name correc?)


and restarted alpine. But I still can not sign:

                  [Couldn't find the certificate needed to sign.]



So I guess the importing must be done differently from what I did.






- -- 
Cheers
        Carlos E. R.

        (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))
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