.P7M File Extension
S/MIME Email Message
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What is a P7M file?
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Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) is an email encryption and digital signature standard. It is used to encrypt sensitive messages and verify senders' identities. For example, businesses might use S/MIME encryption to protect confidential medical or financial information sent via email.
To use S/MIME, you must install an S/MIME certificate and link it with your email client, such as Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail. If your email client is not linked to a valid S/MIME certificate, messages encrypted or signed using S/MIME will contain a P7M file. Most often, this file is named smime.p7m.
Common P7M Filenames
smime.p7m - The default name for P7M files that arrive as email attachments. They usually contain encrypted email content.
How to open a P7M file
You can open P7M files in Cryptigo p7mViewer (Windows). If your P7M file contains an email that was only signed using S/MIME, you can open the file without a private key. If your P7M file contains an email encrypted using S/MIME, you need the private key used to encrypt the file.