From: "Geo." 

I deleted the warnings? I deleted the directory services that come
preconfigured in OE because I really don't want OE to go off talking to
these services without my permission (OE is only allowed to talk to my mail
servers and this news server so all that would do is generate a firewall
popup). I still get signed email and can read it just fine.

Sometimes, and as I stated I don't recall if it's OE or Outlook on my work
machine, I get a warning that a signed email is not properly signed or
something to that effect but I've never investigated why.

what exactly would deleting the below registry entries accomplish? Do those
stop just the popup warning about a signed email I mentioned or would they
stop me from being able to open signed emails?

Geo.

"Rich"  wrote in message news:407056b2{at}w3.nls.net...
   Since you appear to have disabled the warnings for signed email in OE and
you would like them, you can restore them by deleting one or two values under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}\Software
\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Dont Show Dialogs where
{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} is the unique ID for your identity.
The value names to delete are "Digital Signature Help" and
"Encryption Help".

Rich

  "Geo."  wrote in message
news:407022fa$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  I said I use OE here at home because I don't remember where I get the
  message about an email not being properly signed (I believe I've seen it
on
  both). I use Outlook 2000 at work, the mailing lists with signed emails
get
  received at both locations.

  It was just meant as information, not proof of anything. sheeze...

  Geo.

  "Rich"  wrote in message news:406fa6c0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     I don't know if you are lying or just an idiot.  In the message to
which
  I replied you explicitly referred to Outlook not Outlook Express.  In your
  post that started this thread you were quoting from a KB article that
  explicitly referred to an earlier release of Outlook and had nothing to do
  with Outlook Express.  Are you forgetting your own claims or maybe trying
to
  change the topic because you failed to support your earlier whines.

     For Outlook Express, unless you disable it there is a warning displayed
  for every signed message and you must click on a Continue button to see
the
  actual message.  If you aren't seeing the warning then you choose not to.
I
  don't know what it is you deleted but I see no reason that your random
  deletion of anything would have anything but a random effect.

  Rich


    "Geo."  wrote in message
news:406f995e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
    I'm using Outlook Express not Outlook to read most of these. Under
    "accounts" and then "directory services" I've
deleted everything that
was
  in
    there, would that have any effect on signed emails?

    Geo.

    "Rich"  wrote in message news:406f8c84$1{at}w3.nls.net...
       If Outlook is telling you that they are not properly signed then you
  are
    getting S/MIME email though as pointed out to you, not properly signed
    S/MIME.  It may actually be that they are signed properly but chained to
a
    trusted root authority that you do not trust.  I don't remember if I
ever
    noticed in Outlook XP or earlier but wit Outlook 2003 you can tell
Outlook
    to not display a message that is not validly signed.  This is in
addition
  to
    the option to display signed messages as text or the warnings displayed
  when
    you have display non-signed messages as text and you received a signed
    non-text message.

    Rich

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