mailer certificate retrieval via LDAP?

Victor Duchovni Victor.Duchovni at MorganStanley.com
Fri Jun 9 11:10:47 EDT 2006


On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:32:01PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> Are there any common mailers -- open source preferred but not mandatory --
> that can query LDAP directories to retrieve X.509 certificates for use in
> S/MIME messages?  Evolution and Thunderbird are both able to send S/MIME,
> but don't seem to have any easy certificate retrieval mechanisms.
> 

Thunderbird supports PKCS#11 plugins modules, so all you need is PKCS#11
plugin for LDAP. So question looks like a question about availability
of plugins, rather than MUAs...

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