My employer has asked us to use E-Mail Digital Certificates and IDs when sending e-mail. I have installed the Certificate into Windows 7, and imported it into Outlook 2013.

My question is: I use multiple e-mail accounts with Outlook 2013, and the cert is only for one. How do I set Outlook up in such a way that the certificate is automatically attached to new emails from the right account? I'm not seeing a way to do this, unless I missed it.

Or must certificate attachment be done at the time the message is composed, each time, no way to automate? 

Hi,

How did you import install the certificate and import it into Outlook 2013? Did you check the right option in the Trust Center | Email Security tab?

Please make sure the setting you have done is correct first.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/get-a-digital-id-HA102748952.aspx

Special attention to Add the section: a recipient's digital ID to your Contacts.

Feel free to post back.

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Tony Chen
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Yes, that I've done.. Thanks Tony :) 

The real question is this:

I have 4 e-mail accounts in my Outlook installation. However, the DigitalID is only for 1 of them. How do I automatically attach that DigitalID to that particular e-mail address, and not the other 3? 

Or must I manually insert/certify each e-mail? 

Sorry, I have no idear yet but I am trying to involve someone familiar with this topic to further look at this issue.

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Tony Chen
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Hi Tony,

Thanks for your help. Please let me know if you find an answer :) 

Hey there, Mike.

Did you ever secure a good answer to this inquiry?  If not, I believe that the underlying certificate management framework handles that for you.  If I understand things correctly, the Certificate Authority issued the Digital ID that is associated to a specific email account.  I too run multiple email accounts in my outlook client, and if I try to sign an email that is being sent from an account that is different than the one that the Digital ID is for, the client tosses an error dialog indicating that the digital id is not valid for said account.  As such, I think that your concern is mitigated by default.

The hurdle is configuring the client to try to use the certificate only when sending emails from the account associated with the Digital ID.  I ended up, in Trust Center|Email Security defaulting to signing each email and then I customized the ribbon to put the sign/encrypt buttons on the default MESSAGE tab, as reflected here: http://i.imgur.com/z37sj5j.png (note the permission section on the far right).

That way, if I am going to send from an account that is not associated with the Digital ID, then all I have to do is to stroke the Sign button once to tell the client not to attempt to sign said email being composed.

Hope that helps, if you're still looking for a resolution.

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What brought me to this thread is my desire to know if Outlook, and the underlying OS, supports multiple Digital IDs.  As I drafted this, I talked myself into acknowledging that it probably does by being able to import multiple certificates and then relying on the integration between the client and host OS to handle selecting which ID/Certificate is appropriate for use when a specific email is composed and sent (based on the originating account) with Signing (& Encryption) enabled.  I am going to get another Digital ID and put the theory to test.  I suspect that it'll be intuitive and work just like one would expect.  Wish me luck.

Take care.

-t

Hi Tod,

Thanks very much for the reply, as unexpected as it was. I have since stopped trying to finangle with the digital ID aspect of outlook, finding it cumbersome. However, with your new information, I may give it a try. 

Thanks again! 

How did this work out for you? I'm struggling through this exact issue... 4 email accounts configured on outlook, 2 digitial ID's... how do I get the right digital ID associated with the right account?

JW