# newbie question

**URL:** <https://community.ciphermail.com/t/newbie-question/91>\
**Category:** Gateway\
**Created:** [January 20, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.ciphermail.com/t/newbie-question/91 "2010-01-20T13:14:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Colton\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Colton\_Smith](https://community.ciphermail.com/u/Colton_Smith)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.ciphermail.com/t/newbie-question/91/1 "2010-01-20T13:14:10Z")

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Hi,

I'm getting to know Djigzo and it looks really great!

I'm experimenting using a Google Gmail recipient. When the recipient receives  
from Djigzo an encrypted email bearing a certificate for which the recipient has already  
installed a key, the message is appropriately decrypted but there's always  
an accompanying smime.p7m attachment. Is this what other users see? Is this  
the intended result?

I'm using the Djigzo virtual appliance. And I'm using FireFox version 3.0.17 outfitted  
with the Gmail S/MIME 0.4.5 plug-in.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

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**Author:** ![martijn](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.ciphermail.com/martijn/32/127_2.png) [@martijn](https://community.ciphermail.com/u/martijn)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.ciphermail.com/t/newbie-question/91/2 "2010-01-20T13:22:25Z")

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Hi Colton,

> I'm getting to know Djigzo and it looks really great!

Thanks

> I'm experimenting using a Google Gmail recipient. When the recipient receives  
> from Djigzo an encrypted email bearing a certificate for which the recipient has already  
> installed a key, the message is appropriately decrypted but there's always  
> an accompanying smime.p7m attachment. Is this what other users see? Is this  
> the intended result?
> 
> I'm using the Djigzo virtual appliance. And I'm using FireFox version 3.0.17 outfitted  
> with the Gmail S/MIME 0.4.5 plug-in.

Yes I also get the attachment in Gmail. The message however is correctly  
decrypted. It could be that the Firefox Gmail add-on cannot easily  
remove the attachment.

If you want to be sure you could ask one of the Gmail add-on authors at:  
[http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-smime/gmail-smime.html](http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-smime/gmail-smime.html)

Kind regards,

Martijn Brinkers

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