It is possible — after all — to sign .Mac emails with the new iChat digital certificate that came with the 10.4.3 update.

Although I couldn’t get it to work, some people like David Dunham were able to use their new iChat digital certificates to sign .Mac emails. And it looked like Apple had future plans to use the certificate for email signatures.

But you can use it now to sign your .Mac emails.

To enable Mail.app to use your iChat certificate in this way, you need to open the Keychain Access utility. You can find it in the Utilities sub-folder of your Applications folder.

Make sure that your .Mac digital certificate is listed there. Then open up Keychain Access’ Preferences and select the “Search .Mac for certificates” option:

Now launch or (re-launch) Apple Mail. It will be able to digitally sign emails composed in your .Mac account using that certificate.

Works for me!

UPDATE: Criss Hyde emails to say that this certificate support is not there for trial .Mac accounts or email only .Mac accounts. But full .Mac accounts and family .Mac accounts are supported.

[Via Quarter Life Crisis]

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