[Dovecot] Changing SSL certificates - switching from self-signed to RapidSSL
Charles Marcus
CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Fri Apr 18 17:57:47 UTC 2014
Hi all,
Ok, been wanting to do this for a while, and I after the Heartbleed
fiasco, the boss finally agreed to let me buy some real certs...
Until now, we've been using self-signed certs with the following dovecot
config:
ssl = required
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/ourCerts/imap.pem
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/ourCerts/imap_key.pem
Now, I've created new keys/certs and the CSR, got the new certs from
RapidSSL (and also downloaded their Intermediate bundle), saved
everything per their instructions, which say to reference them as follows:
ssl = required
ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/ourNewCerts/mail.ourdomain.com.crt
ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/ourNewCerts/mail.ourdomain.com.key
ssl_ca_file = /etc/ssl/ourNewCerts/RapidSSL_Intermediate.crt
But my current config doesn't have the _file for the variable names, and
the wiki doesn't use them, so I'm planning on setting these to:
ssl = required
ssl_cert = /etc/ssl/ourNewCerts/mail.ourdomain.com.crt
ssl_key = /etc/ssl/ourNewCerts/mail.ourdomain.com.key
ssl_ca = /etc/ssl/ourNewCerts/RapidSSL_Intermediate.crt
Anyone else ever used RapidSSL certs? Does this look correct?
Thanks,
Charles
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