[Dovecot] Dovecot SSL limitations

[Jose Celestino]

On Seg, 2009-11-30 at 17:03 +0100, Thomas Hummel wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 03:50:00PM +0000, Jose Celestino wrote:
> 
> > The client compares the CN of the certificate with the hostname it has
> > configured and warns on a mismatch. What you can do is have multiple
> > subjects certificate, that is a certificate again with a single CN but
> > with multiple alt subjects that should cover all the names that server
> > may have. The client should support those kind of certificates, of
> > course.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> You're not talking about wildcard certificate, aren't you ?
> 

No, this are called SAN certificates.


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