Retrieving certificates and cross certificates from your home server

To access HCL Notes® servers in other domains, to verify digital signatures, or to encrypt messages using S/MIME, you must have cross certificates in your Contacts. You can add to your Contacts Internet certificates and Notes® and Internet cross certificates from the HCL Domino® Directory on your home/mail server.

About this task

You can do any of the following to retrieve certificates and cross certificates from your home server.

To retrieve your administrator's cross certificates for Notes® and Internet certificates

Procedure

  1. Click File > Security > User Security (Macintosh OS X users: Notes > Security > User Security).
  2. Click Identity of Others > People, Services.
  3. Click Find more about people/services.
  4. Click Download administrative trust defaults. Notes® copies Notes® and Internet cross certificates only if the cross certificate was issued by a common ancestor (any certifier listed in the certificate chain).

To retrieve all Internet certificates from the Domino® Directory

Procedure

  1. Open your Personal Address book.
  2. Click Actions > Retrieve Certificates from Home Server.

Results

Note: Retrieving all certificates from your home server may take several minutes to complete. The progress of the certificates being copied over to your Address Book is displayed in the status bar.

To retrieve a Notes® cross certificate or Internet cross certificate from the Domino® Directory

Procedure

  1. In the Domino® Directory, open the Servers > Certificates view.
  2. Select one or more Notes® or Internet cross certificate and click the Copy to Personal Address Book action button in the action bar.