SSL is working very well for me. I used the mkcert.sh script that comes with Dovecot - although I changed it a bit to make a certificate that lasts a year instead of one month.
Mozilla, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes - all using SSL on port 993 to communicate with Dovecot and working fine.
It _did_ take some work to get Dovecot to compile with SSL support, but it turns out that my SSL_dev package was not installed properly. (I had such a problem finding the header files that were needed that I completely upgraded the whole of Linux on that machine and then installed the DEV code from a package). Once that was done, I could coax Dovecot into compiling with SSL.
Now it works very well. Mozilla in particular immediately asks me if I want to accept the certificate permanently or temorarily - Outlook and Notes use IE's certificate store - for that I needed to tell my users to surf to https://server.com:993 - and then IE would pick up the certificate and let them add it to their trusted store.
I don't know about the Mozilla error below, I didn't get that.
Les
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Warren Togami <warren@togami.com> Sent by: dovecot-bounces@procontrol.fi 2003-05-15 10:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [Dovecot] ssl still not workingOn Thu, 2003-05-15 at 01:25, Farkas Levente wrote:
hi, I'm just download the latest cvs and try to use imaps. in mozilla I've got the following message window:
mail.int.bppiac.hu received a message with incorrect Message Authentication Code. If the error occurs frequently, contact the website
administrator.
and there is only one OK button:-) and this happens always. what can be the reason and what can I do? thanks.
I can say that I too have never been able to get IMAPS working with dovecot, with both self-signed generated .pem files and my apache SSL keys. I have that same error message with Mozilla Mail 1.2.1 and 1.4b.
Warren