Security certificate linked with Mail account-can't permanently delete

A certificate created for a pdf doc signature has somehow been linked to a Mail account. I've tried numerous times to delete through Keychain but still comes back

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 27, 2022 10:26 AM

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AnnieL2

Community Specialist

Feb 28, 2022 10:15 AM in response to RASCON

Greetings RASCON,

We understand that you’re seeing a situation with a PDF on your Mac. Could you tell us more about what you’re attempting to accomplish with this PDF when the issue occurs? If there is an error message, what does it say?

Do the steps from the following article on using certificates help? Use personal certificates in Mail on Mac.

Thanks.

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