10th April 2009, Friday, Not remember how the climate was

I had signed up a free Personal E-mail Certificates account with Thawte 2 or 3 years ago. I have not used the certificate for some time. 2 or 3 days ago, I requested the new cerficate from Thawte , again . After that, there were 2 emails sent from Thawte:

1. The first one is sent with subject “Certificate Requested”. It is just a welcome message.

2. The second one is with Subject “Thawte Personal Cert Issued” , providing the link to get the certificate, which can be installed into Mozilla Thunderbird.

Once I clicked on the link, there is a dialog box prompted, asking for username and password of the Thawte account. After keyed in, the Mozilla Firefox had prompt me to download a file called “mycert.spc” . I had tried to install it on Thunderbird, but fail to. I wondered what this could be wrong, and how come last time I was able to install it easily in Windows XP .

Oh yes ! The point is last time, I had successfully installed the Thawte certificate into Thunderbird with Windows XP’s terminal, and this time, I did it in Windows Vista. Hmm, I googled around then to check if there are any issue for installing Thawte personal email cerficate into Mozilla Thunderbird in Windows Vista . I then found a great help from http://www.heypete.com/pete/secure/certs/smime/thawte/firefox.html

Yes, in Vista, there might need to have the Mozilla Firefox to run into Windows XP compatiblity mode. For more details on doing that, you migth refer to http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-windows-vista-compatibility-mode/ . After that, log in into the thawte account to get the certificate. This will automatically import the certificate into Mozzila Firefox . Then , you might export the certificate out from Mozzila Firefox and import it into Mozilla Thunderbird.

For more details steps, might refer to http://www.heypete.com/pete/secure/certs/smime/thawte/firefox.html

Yes, finally, I had successfully installed Thawte Personal E-mail Certificate on my Mozilla Thunderbird email account

~Finished.