Using a valid ca-bundle.crt smime file with mutt

mutt will complain with the following if you havent setup a working ~/.smime directory.

Error loading file /home/rene/.smime/ca-bundle.crt                                                          
301:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:bss_file.c:
122:fopen('/home/rene/.smime/ca-bundle.crt','r')                                           

A quick way to fix this is to install the ca-certificates package distributed by your vendor, create the smime directories and link a ca-bundle.crt directory. Heres how to do it with Debian or Ubuntu.

$ sudo apt-get install ca-certificates
$ smime_keys init
$ ln -sf /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt ~/.smime/ca-bundle.crt

mutt should be happy and display the following when trying to verify a smime signature

[-- OpenSSL output follows (current time: Wed 23 Jan 2008 08:22:17 PM EST) --]                              
Verification successful                                                                                     
[-- End of OpenSSL output --]