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patrickcoom
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May 12, 2020

Use of digital certificates in Outlook Client for Windows ("trust center")

Hi, I use Outlook (Office 365) to manage multiple accounts. I want to digitally sign all my outgoing emails from one account with a certificate. How to set this up differs between my Outlook client...
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ChristianBergstrom
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May 13, 2020

patrickcoom Hello, I just created an additional profile in my Outlook client and configured my primary profile to use my digital certificate (ID card) for signing messages via Trust Center settings in Outlook. When changing Outlook Profile to the new one (File - Account Settings - Change Profile) the settings are not "inherited". They are only configured in the profile in which I created them. In other words I cannot reproduce the issue you're describing as my outgoing messages are only digitally signed from my primary profile.

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    patrickcoom
    Copper Contributor
    May 13, 2020

    ChristianBergstromso you switch between profiles basically, which is not really great for using a single client for managing multiple mailboxes at the same time. What a terrible user experience. On Mac this works as one should expect, only on Windows this logic is at a wrong level. While digging deeper I found similar posts even bug reports dating back to 2015, but apparently nobody cares about using digital certificates.

     

    Thx for your response!