Updated my Dovecot certificate for the first time

[Martin Wheldon]

Hi Steve,

You could create your own private CA then sign your Dovecot certificate 
with the CA cert and
alpine should then trust it.

Best Regards

Martin

On 2016-11-24 15:37, Steve Litt wrote:
> 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:
>> 
>> >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
>> >
>> > 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.
>> 
>> "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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