Xerox DocuShare 6.0 用户手册

Using the Email Agent

Importing a digital certificate to your email application

DocuShare Email Agent User Guide

 2–11

A digital signature adds security to your email communications by ensuring that the 
message came from you and has not been changed by someone else. To add a digital 
signature to an email message, you need to import a digital certificate to your email 
application (for example, Microsoft Outlook).

This section provides general steps for importing a digital certificate. See the 
documentation included with your email application for step-by-step instructions on 
importing a digital certificate.

To import a digital certificate to your email application:

1. Contact your DocuShare administrator to find out the Certification Authority (CA) 

from which you should obtain the digital certificate. The certificate is a file with the 
extension .p12 (for example, mycertificate.p12).

2. After obtaining the digital certificate from the CA, copy it to a folder on your 

computer.

3. Using your email application, import the certificate from the folder on your 

computer. You will need to provide the following information:

• Certificate file

• Password, provided by the CA

Note: If your certificate was issued from a CA that is part of a trusted chain of other 

certificates and CAs, your email application may ask if you want to add the CA to 
the Root Store. You can click Yes to add the CA, or you can add it directly to your 
email application. The latter method requires importing a PEM file with a .cer 
extension for the CA. The PEM file can be obtained from the CA at your site.