Re: Digital Certificates - POP & IMAP

I'd actually be willing to bet they dont' mean to infer you can't use IMAP, particularly since the digital signing happens when you're sending mail and IMAP isn't the protocol used for sending (presumably SMTP is, unless you're on an interesting system). I think they meant to say you can't use the digital ID with something like a web-based email service (hotmail, yahoo mail, msn, etc), in which case it's just poorly worded. What they really should say, if I'm right about what they meant, is something like

        "To use a digital ID, you must be using a supported email client (with link to a list of said supported clients). Web-based email systems are not yet supported by Verisign for use with Digital ID."

I would further guess that the reason this is worded this way is because someone at Verisign brought up web-based systems when they were in a marketing meeting, and someone else (with slightly less than a full clue) said "yeah, we can't support webmail systems. I think they use IMAP, right?". Thus, the marketspeak folks decided the Digital ID doesn't support IMAP.

But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

The world may never know the truth, unless someone from Verisign checks this list =).

-Brian

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Brian Smith-Sweeney
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University of California, Santa Barbara
Physics Department
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On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 09:40, Scott Walter wrote:

> When using digital certificates for secure email, why would the email 





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