said Leslie Turriff:

| 	This drove me mad for ages, until I finally broke down and started
| tinkering with the Settings.  (I don't know if this is the best way to
| fix this, but I figure that when an ISP sends certificates with broken
| authority info, which apparently is ignored by all those Windoze mail
| clients, it must be more or less okay...)
| 	In the Scurity & Privacy Settings, S/MIME Validation tab, I unchecked
| "Do not check certificate policies" and "Never consult a CRL", and now
| kMail doesn't gripe about this any more.

not the safest thing to do, but preferable to insanity -- thanks!
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