[Evolution-users] Preferences/Certificates

[janos]

Thanks. I have studied and tried to understand the concept of
certificates and keys before getting back to this mailing list. The
problem is "brief".

In Edit->Preferences->Certificates there is no help or explanation
regarding what the four tabs mean and how to populate them.
I sort of figured out that
* Contact Certificates tab has S/Mime related certificates, and
* Authorities tab contains entries from /etc/ssl/certs/ directory (the
trust store).
However the
* Your Certificates tab is empty on my machine (Gentoo linux). There is
an Import button, but what to import?
* Mail tab is empty (as for the Your Certificate tab). There is an
Update button, but nothing happens.

Janos
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On Sun, 2025-07-27 at 00:32 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Sat, 2025-07-26 at 18:56 -0400, janos via evolution-users wrote:
> > Where can I find more information on the various tabs (Your
> > Certificates, etc)? What is the proper way to populate and manage
> > these
> > tabs?
> 
> There's a built in help that gives some brief information on various
> things. For instance certificate handling is at 
> 
>  Help -> Contents -> Advanced Mail Management
>                   -> Mail encryption and certificates
> 
> P.