Lotus Notes sending error issue

Lotus Notes sending error issue

Hi Ice,

This error happens because the format that is set for your messages addressed to the Internet addresses field is set to MIME.  This can be found in your Mail tab of your Location document and you do not have an Internet (X.509) certificate in you Notes ID.

To disable the first dialog window, you can add the following line in your notes.ini file in you Notes client.  You can open this file using  your Notepad application.

MAIL_SKIP_NOKEY_DIALOG=1

For the second window there is no workaround to prevent it from popping up at the moment.  Mails sent through Internet, Lotus Notes keys won’t work. We need to have a X.509 certificate integrated into your Lotus Notes ID.

This is not common, the keys are not commonly issued to all since not everybody needs them.

Hope that this would explain why this error comes up.

Lotus Notes sending error issue

This problem is actually not with the application but with how your email is configured. To fix the problem, see your settings. In your application, go to “User Preferences”. In “User Preferences” window, expand “Mail” on the left pane and select “General”. Here, under “Sending” section, make sure “Sign mail that you send” is checked. Click “OK” then see if it works.

The full error reads “You have requested to sign this Internet message, but your current ID does not specify an Internet certificate for signing. Select OK to send the message anyway”. This is an error message that caused confusion to users for years. You may receive this message when a user’s settings default to sign emails.

In Lotus Notes, this is done using the Public Key Infrastructure or PKI of your current Lotus Notes ID. Your client signs email messages to other Lotus Notes recipients using your public key. When the client tries to sign the email message and it cannot find a valid certificate to use, the error is triggered. The way to suppress this is to change the default setting of signing messages.