Signing email with Messenger

In order to sign e-mail message, you must have your personal digital certificate selected with Messenger. Your digital signature enables recipients to verify that you actually sent the message.

The signed icon indicates that a message has been signed. When you receive a signed message, the signed icon is displayed when you view it in Netscape Messenger. Messenger also automatically stores the sender's digital certificate, enabling future messages sent to that person to be encrypted.

You can sign individual messages or configure your security preferences to automatically sign all of the e-mail or newsgroups messages you send.

Signing Individual Messages

To sign an outgoing message:
  1. Compose your message as usual.
  2. When you finished, click on the Message Sending Option Tab  in the Composition window.
  3. Enable the Signed checkbox.

  4. Click on the Send button to send your message.

Automatically Signing All Outgoing Messages

To configure your Messenger Security Settings to automatically sign outgoing messages:
  1. Open the Netscape Communicator Security Advisor by choosing Security Info from the Communicator menu.
  2. Click on the Messenger link to display the Messenger Security Settings.
  3. To automatically sign outgoing e-mail messages, enable the Sign mail messages, when it is possible checkbox.
  4. To automatically sign outgoing news messages, enable the Sign news messages, when it is possible checkbox.