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    <desc>Adding, editing, viewing and deleting S/MIME certificates.</desc>

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  <title>Managing S/MIME certificates</title>

<p>Certificates allow you to communicate with others securely over an encrypted connection, or sign a message confirming your identity to the contact. These settings only apply to S/MIME encryption.</p>
<p>You can import, view, edit (except for your own certificates), and delete your certificates under <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Preferences</gui><gui>Certificates</gui></guiseq>.</p>

<note style="tip"><p>If you get the error "Peer's certificate issuer has been marked as not trusted by the user. (-8172) - Cannot add SMIMEEncKeyPrefs attribute" after adding your mail certificate, go to <gui>Authorities</gui> and enable <gui>Trust this CA to identify email users</gui> for the certificate.</p></note>

<p><gui>Your Certificates</gui> displays a list of certificates that you own. To add a signing certificate, click <gui style="button">Import</gui>, select the file to import, then click <gui style="button">Open</gui> and enter a password.</p>
<p><gui>Contact Certificates</gui> displays a list of certificates that you have for contacts. These certificates allow you to decrypt messages as well verify signed messages.</p>
<p><gui>Authorities</gui> displays a list of trusted certificate authorities that verify that your own certificate is valid.</p>
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