Re: Sending signed and encrypted mails with Gnus to outlook users fails

[Eric Abrahamsen]

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