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Cannot Decrypt S/MIME Emails After Upgrade to 78.5.0

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Greetings:

I have Thunderbird set up to use S/MIME encryption. It has worked as expected for quite some time now. However, after a recent upgrade (I believe it was 78.5.0, which I upgraded to approximately 10 days ago), I can no longer read any emails that were encrypted using my digital cert. This includes e-mails in my "Sent" folder. My certs are setup correctly underneath Account -> End-to-End Encryption -> S/MIME. They are not expired. I have "Require encryption by default" selected but left "Add my digital signature by default" unchecked.

Looking at the Error Console, I do not see anything that to me seems related to the issue -mostly Exceptions in "L10nRegistry.jsm" , "ActorManagerChild.jsm", and "Extensions.JSM".

Any advice as to how to troubleshoot or fix would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Greetings: I have Thunderbird set up to use S/MIME encryption. It has worked as expected for quite some time now. However, after a recent upgrade (I believe it was 78.5.0, which I upgraded to approximately 10 days ago), I can no longer read any emails that were encrypted using my digital cert. This includes e-mails in my "Sent" folder. My certs are setup correctly underneath Account -> End-to-End Encryption -> S/MIME. They are not expired. I have "Require encryption by default" selected but left "Add my digital signature by default" unchecked. Looking at the Error Console, I do not see anything that to me seems related to the issue -mostly Exceptions in "L10nRegistry.jsm" , "ActorManagerChild.jsm", and "Extensions.JSM". Any advice as to how to troubleshoot or fix would be appreciated. Thanks.

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restate the certs in your account settings. Mine have dropped off several time now over the past couple of years. When I restated them they came back with a number in brackets after the personal certificate name, then I could send s/mime signed mail... I did not try and read encrypted mail at the time, I mostly sign. But I have no doubt if I could not send I would not have been able to read.