This appears to be working exactly as it should.

1.  You wish to FORWARD a message to someone.  This means that the 
destination address MAY BE DIFFERENT which requires that a new Public 
Key be used for the encryption.  It matters not that you are sending the 
email to the same original recipient.  Netscape must still decrypt the 
message and re-encrypt it with the NEW destination address certificate. 
  NOTE:  You would NOT want Netscape to send messages to Recipient B 
using Recipient A's public key !!!

2.  Allow me to paraphrase ... "If I remove the checks for .... encrypt, 
it wants to send the new message .... unencrypted!"
Um ... well ... Yeah ?!?

Andrew

Nelson B. Bolyard wrote:
> I just discovered a NASTY problem with S/MIME in Communicator 4.7x.
> I certainly hope Mozilla's S/MIME will get this right.
> 
> 8 days ago, I sent a signed and encrypted email to someone. After he 
> received it, he had a hard disk crash, and lost his email folders.
> Fortunately, his private keys and certs were backed up.
> 
> So, he got a new disk, reinstalled everything, and wrote me asking me to 
> resend that signed and encrypted message to him.   I have a copy of the 
> signed and encrypted message in my folder of sent messages.  I don't 
> want to make a new signed and encrypted message from the plaintext of the
> original.  I just want to forward an exact copy of the original encrypted
> message to him.
> 
> NO CAN DO.
> 
> Communicator wants my private key to forward the message.
> I shouldn't need my private key to forward an exact copy of the original
> signed-and-encrypted email.  It should be forwarded exactly as is.  Right?
> 
> Nope.  Communicator won't forward it.  Without my private key, Communicator 
> only forwards the original message header (which wasn't encrypted in the
> original message) with no body. 
> 
> If I login to my crypto token, unlocking my private key, then Communicator 
> can read the decrypted original message.  But then what it does is not 
> forward the original signed-and-encrypted message as-is.  Instead it 
> creates a new message, which has the decrypted original plaintext message 
> as an attachment, and it wants to sign and encrypt that new message.  
> 
> If I remove the checks for the checkboxes for sign and encrypt, it wants 
> to send the new message, with the decrypted original plaintext message 
> attached, unencrypted!  
> 
> I certainly hope Mozilla's S/MIME will get this right.
> 
> --
> Nelson Bolyard
> 


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