Kubuntu/Kmail and S/MIME - Is it supported (working) for Dapper

[Tez]

Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I tried to do S/MIME with Kmail using Dapper Flight 7 and it did not appear to 
> be supported (at least as initially installed).  Unfortunately, S/MIME is an 
> absolute requirement for some of my customers (please no GPG versus S/MIME 
> flames - I didn't pick it).  As a result, I'm not using Kubuntu at the 
> moment.  I'd like to switch to it as, with that one critical (for me) 
> exception it seemed really solid and useable for my desktop.
>
> I'd like to know if anyone has gotten Kmail and S/MIME working with Dapper?  
> From what I've Googled, it seems to be a mixed story.  I've tried this before 
> on other Debian derived distributions with no luck.
>
> This bug talks about gnugp-agent not working (but for GPG):
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/+bug/42086
>
> Additionally, there is this KDE bug in 3.5.2:
> http://bugs.kde.org/127389
>
> I know it didn't work out of the box (as it does on some other distributions).  
> I'm willing to do some work to get it going on Kubuntu, but I'd like to have 
> some confidence that it is, in fact, an achievable goal before I start.
>
> Anyone out there have any luck with this?
>
> Scott K
I don't use S/MIME but I'm sure Mozilla Thunderbird has that capability with
the mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail package. Maybe consider looking in to that.

Terence Simpson