[rescue] S/MIME and mutt

Stuff Received stuff at riddermarkfarm.ca
Sat Jul 19 20:04:40 UTC 2025


On 2025-07-19 12:57, Phil Stracchino via rescue wrote:
> On 7/18/25 13:09, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>> Can you use a command line client like openssl s_client to check the 
>> certificates? If a chained certificate it has to have the intermediate 
>> certificate in a particular order.
> 
> 
> The certificate is known good.  What I've been unable to determine is 
> why mutt, specifically, seems to be unable to validate it.

I found the following instructions for using mutt with S/MIME certs:

https://whirlpool.u.blinkenshell.org/pages/using-mutt-and-smime-for-encrypted-mails.html

You wrote that mutt is unable to validate the cert.  Do you know the 
cert chain back to a trusted pubkey?

S.



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