You probably know by now that Thawte has announced an end to its free
email certificate service.

http://www.h-online.com/security/Thawte-discontinues-Web-of-Trust-for-free-SSL-certificates--/news/114447


https://siteseal.thawte.com/support/index.html?page=content&id=SO12658

This has caused many people to start looking around for a substitute.
Today, I received this email from a colleague about this subject.

> I found http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_an_SMIME_certificate
> 
> I couldn't find any trusted-by-NSS CA that offers multiple email 
> addresses in a single cert (subject alt name extension). Thawte offered 
> it and it worked well for me.
> 
> The only one that offers it is CACert. I'm tempted to trust the CACert 
> root for email users.
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