Re: SSL client certificate with mutt?
* Jim MacBaine wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have got an account on an imap server I can only connect to with a
> client certificate. I have got this certificate, a file with a .p12
> ending, and I can successfully connect to that server with Mozilla
> Thunderbird and KMail after I have imported the certificate. But I
> normally use mutt to read my mails, and the debian (unstable) version
> of mutt seems unable to use this client certificate.
>
> First thing I tried: The ssl_client_cert variable in muttrc, but mutt
> says it doesn't know this variable. I found out that the debian mutt
> has been compiled with gnutls instead of openssl and doesn't seem to
> offer a way for using client certificates, does it?
zcat /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.6-r5/smime-notes.txt.gz | less.
You need to use the smime_keys perl script and you will need openssl
installed (since smime_keys is just a wrapper script). You will then
need to set various variables in your .muttrc. This is all explained in
the smime-notes.txt.
Shaun
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