Updated my Dovecot certificate for the first time

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 07:52:51 +0100 (CET)
Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:

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> On Wed, 23 Nov 2016, Steve Litt wrote:
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> >On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:04:22 -0600 (CST) Greg Rivers
> ><gcr+dovecot at tharned.org> wrote:  
> >> $ strings $(whence alpine) | grep '^/.*certs$'
> >> /etc/ssl/certs  
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> > The directory or the certs isn't the problem. Alpine sees the
> > self-signed cert I just made, but complains because it's
> > self-signed, and gives me the choice between saying "yes" every
> > time, and just not checking for certs at all.  
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> "sees the self-signed cert"?
> Did you've added it as trusted to the CA as Greg said and wrote what
> to do?

No. I don't want to deal with a third party "Trusted Party": I want  it
self-signed. What I was looking for was a way Alpine could be set to
check for a cert, warn if the cert is conflicting, but not warn if it's
self-signed.

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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