For my employment I need to use a digital ID in order to send my
work to my contractor (boss) encrypted securely.

Over about the past month or more I started getting emails that simply had
nothing in them and attachments which simply have "smime.7pm" . When I
click on this file to open it I get a file to open which then gives me an
error message: "This file does not have a program associated with it for
performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options Control
Panel".
I have just now received anohter email from my boss with patient files that
I need to open and view and I am absolutely unable to do so. I saved it to
my desktop and it tells me: "To open this file, Windows needs to know what
program created it." I go to the windows and see all of the websites and
downloads for "smime.7pm". I download them but then they won't run 'until
you purchase them'! I am not interested in purchasing any of those
programs.
I have been working with the digitial ID company for several days and they
have deemed everything is in perfect working order and have referred me on to
Microsoft who sent me an email and said check technical help which I clicked
on and there are charges - or this discussion group.
I also have below an option to 'Save Attachments" which I have tried by
saving to my Desktop or My Documents and a couple of times was able to open
the file.

Anybody out there with an information about smime.7pm and how to "correct"
that in Outlook Express ?

--
B.

"Brenda" <Brenda@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:952B759F-E1DE-4736-9EED-DA5DE8838242@microsoft.com...
> For my employment I need to use a digital ID in order to send my
> work to my contractor (boss) encrypted securely.
>
> Over about the past month or more I started getting emails that simply had
> nothing in them and attachments which simply have "smime.7pm" . When I
> click on this file to open it I get a file to open which then gives me an
> error message: "This file does not have a program associated with it for
> performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options Control
> Panel".


If it is an attachment which OE should know about you could also make OE
do something with it by just dragging it to the main OE window.
FWIW I would create an new folder to drag it to otherwise you might not
realize that it had done anything with it, unless you noticed that the message
count in the Status bar increased.


> I have just now received anohter email from my boss with patient files that
> I need to open and view and I am absolutely unable to do so. I saved it to
> my desktop and it tells me: "To open this file, Windows needs to know what
> program created it." I go to the windows and see all of the websites and
> downloads for "smime.7pm". I download them but then they won't run 'until
> you purchase them'! I am not interested in purchasing any of those
> programs.


Help us help you. What programs?


> I have been working with the digitial ID company for several days and they
> have deemed everything is in perfect working order and have referred me on to
> Microsoft who sent me an email and said check technical help which I clicked
> on and there are charges - or this discussion group.


What does you boss want you to do? <eg>


> I also have below an option to 'Save Attachments" which I have tried by
> saving to my Desktop or My Documents and a couple of times was able to open
> the file.


And... what happened? Opened it in what? Notepad? Any file can be
opened with Notepad. If the file is predominantly text you may even be
able to read enough of it not to bother trying to find a more proper application
to open it with.


>
> Anybody out there with an information about smime.7pm and how to "correct"
> that in Outlook Express ?


Use View Source to find out more about the attachment.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---

I suspect that the file you are seeing is actually smime.p7m

That you are seeing that indicates that OE is not decrypting the
attachment.

Has your boss recently changed is digital id? If so, did he send you
his new public key?

See the following

How to Digitally Sign and Encrypt Messages in Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=168726
OE: How to Remove, Import, and Export Digital Certificates
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=179380
OE: Sent Message May Not Be Digitally Signed
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=185621
Unable to Use Personal Certificates in Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=190296


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Brenda" <Brenda@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:952B759F-E1DE-4736-9EED-DA5DE8838242@microsoft.com...
> For my employment I need to use a digital ID in order to send my
> work to my contractor (boss) encrypted securely.
>
> Over about the past month or more I started getting emails that simply
> had
> nothing in them and attachments which simply have "smime.7pm" . When
> I
> click on this file to open it I get a file to open which then gives me
> an
> error message: "This file does not have a program associated with it
> for
> performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options
> Control
> Panel".
> I have just now received anohter email from my boss with patient files
> that
> I need to open and view and I am absolutely unable to do so. I saved
> it to
> my desktop and it tells me: "To open this file, Windows needs to know
> what
> program created it." I go to the windows and see all of the websites
> and
> downloads for "smime.7pm". I download them but then they won't run
> 'until
> you purchase them'! I am not interested in purchasing any of those
> programs.
> I have been working with the digitial ID company for several days and
> they
> have deemed everything is in perfect working order and have referred
> me on to
> Microsoft who sent me an email and said check technical help which I
> clicked
> on and there are charges - or this discussion group.
> I also have below an option to 'Save Attachments" which I have tried
> by
> saving to my Desktop or My Documents and a couple of times was able to
> open
> the file.
>
> Anybody out there with an information about smime.7pm and how to
> "correct"
> that in Outlook Express ?
>
> --
> B.