[imp] Encryption within Horde 3/IMP fails

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Johnny Gonzalez <johnnygonzalezl at gmail.com>:

> Hello Everybody,
>
> I have a problem to send encrypted emails.
>
> AFAIK, if I want to send an encrypted email message, I have to import the
> recipient's public key (certificate), but when I try to do so I get this
> error message: "Not
> a valid public key.". I tryed to do it in the two diferent ways we
> have:
> 1. Inserting the certificate text (in base 64 encoding) in the
> respective box
> 2. Uploading the certificate file, for example johnny.crt
> None of them worked :-(, I get the same message.

The public key attached to your email does not have an email address 
associated with it.  It is a valid SMIME public key, but not for e-mail 
purposes (or at least for IMP/Horde which determines which public key 
to use by the e-mail address, not any kind of manual selection 
mechanism).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]