gypsylady said:
I am using Windows E-mail for my e-mails.
There is no such product. There is Outlook - the topic of THIS
newsgroup. There is Windows Mail which is the e-mail client included in
Windows Vista. But there is no product named "Windows E-Mail".
However, when I want to reply to a link to an e-mail address (eg.
help@whatever), it reverts (?) to Outlook e-mail and won't let me
send message.
Do you actually have Outlook installed?
Did you configure it as the default e-mail client?
- As the configurable option within Outlook?
- And as the default e-mail client under Internet Options -> Programs?
It says I need a certificate to sent a message from Outlook e-mail.
Did you configure Outlook to always add a digital signature to your
outbound e-mails?
How do I get it to stop doing that?
Don't digitally sign your e-mails. That requires an e-mail certificate
and you don't have one (they are free from Thawte).
What is a certificate for Outlook 2007 and do I have to pay for this
certificate?
Not sure why you care if your real question is how to NOT use Outlook
for mailto: links and instead use Windows Mail (or whatever it was you
meant by "Windows E-mail").
You can get free e-mail certs from Thawte (
www.thawte.com, freemail
cert). They got bought by Verisign who charges for security certs but
the Thawte division still gets to issue freemail certs. However, that
cert only has your e-mail address as the only validation of who sent an
e-mail in the digital signature. It doesn't actually identify YOU. It
can be used in digital signatures and also to encrypt e-mails. For
encryption, the one that wants to GET encrypted e-mails must digitally
sign their e-mail to give out their public key to someone ELSE that can
then use it to encrypt their e-mail that they send to you so you can use
your private key (that only you have) to decrypt it.
