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Digital Certificates

Setting up Mac Mail to use signing and encryption certificates

  • Operating System: Mac OS X
  • Application: Mac Mail

As long as you have imported your certificate into the Mac OS X keychain, Mac Mail detects the certificates and uses them. When you see these two icons, you know that Mac Mail is using your certificates.

Note: You can send an encrypted message only if you have the recipient's public key. If you do not, Mac Mail displays the following message:

"This message cannot be encrypted because you do not have the public key for [destination e-mail address]. Do you want to send the message without encryption?"