[Alpine-info] S/MIME not working with alpine

[Rohan Jain]

I am trying to get my mail privacy certificate (comodo) to work with
alpine. I created the private key, public and ca certificates by
using the `openssl pkcs12` tool.

After taking a look into the openssl documentation, I used the
following commands for generating the key and ceritficates in the
.alpine-smime directory

     openssl pkcs12 -nocerts -in emailaddress.p12  -out private/emailaddress.key
     openssl pkcs12 -cacerts -in emailaddress.p12  -out ca/emailaddress.crt
     openssl pkcs12 -clcerts -in emailaddress.p12  -out public/emailaddress.crt

I provided the correct password and tried it with and without a paraphrase.
But still when ever I select sign (G), to sign the mail with my certificate
it gives me this error:

     [Couldn't find the certificate needed to sign.]

There was another post similar to this
(http://osdir.com/ml/mail.alpine.alpha/2008-09/msg00007.html) which
suggested using strace to deal with this.

I tried that and found out that all my certificate files were being
opened up OK in readonly mode. But I could not make much more out
of the log.

How can I go forward about debuging the problem futher? Has anyone else
experienced this?

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Operating System:
Debian Sid

Alpine version details:

     Package: alpine
     New: yes
     State: installed
     Automatically installed: no
     Version: 2.02-3+b1
     Priority: optional
     Section: mail
     Maintainer: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>
     Uncompressed Size: 6,967 k
     Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.8+dfsg), libkrb5-3 (>=
     1.6.dfsg.2), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~), libpam0g
     (>= 0.99.7.1),
              libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0)
              Recommends: alpine-doc
              Suggests: aspell, mail-transport-agent | exim4
              Conflicts: pine
              Replaces: pine
              Description: Text-based email client, friendly for novices but
              powerful
               Alpine is an upgrade of the well-known PINE email client.  Its
               name derives from the use of the Apache License and its ties
               to PINE.

                It features a full suite of support for mail protocols like
                IMAP and SMTP and security protocols like TLS.  It uses
                curses for its interface.
                Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/re-alpine/

Rohan Jain