S/MIME Support

[dasyad]

A friend of mine has a BlackBerry Bold and he needs S/MIME support for reading and sending e-mails. The problem is he's telling me that it won't work for him because he is running on BIS and that you need BES for this to actually work, can anyone shed any more light on this?

If you do require BES than I think he is a bit screwed because there's no way he could get one set up at work. I've been trying to Google around for other mobiles OS's and applications to see what support is like but I'm not getting very clear results. This is what I believe support for S/MIME looks like:

Android: Yes, via 3rd party applications
BlackBerry OS: Yes, via BES only
iOS: Yes
Windows Phone 7: No

Is all that correct? I've got zero knowledge about this so appreciate answers from people who do

 

[dasyad]

Thanks for the info Myshra, so basically without BES he's going no where with his BlackBerry.

Okay so if we forget about BlackBerry's for now, does anyone know if e-mail clients for Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 support S/MIME? If so which? He basically needs to be able to send mail signed by his S/MIME certificate and receive mail signed by others S/MIME certificates. He's all good to go on the PC front because Outlook can handle all this, he just needs mobile access.

 

[dasyad]

Brilliant thanks Myshra .

I'll let him know all of this and also tell him that he seriously needs to speak with someone who knows the ins and outs of this sort of thing in detail.