[Dovecot] SSL CA root certificate

[Alexander Sabourenkov]

> I bought a certificate from Digital Signature Trust which is a well
> known certificate authority.  The reason I bought my certificate, was so
> that email clients connecting to my imaps server wouldn't be bothered
> with warnings of unrecognized certificate authority as they would see
> with a self-signed server certificate.  However, I haven't been able to
> configure dovecot with my Digital Signature Trust signed certificate so
> that the unrecognized certificate authority warning doesn't appear.  I
> have the root certificate for Digital Signature Trust, but I don't know
> where to put it so that dovecot will use it.  I tried appending the CA
> root certificate onto my server's certificate file with no success.  The
> answer here is not, load my server's certificate into thunderbird or
> outlook express, because that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid by
> purchasing my certificate from a recognized authority.  Help.

Before choosing a CA to buy certificate from you should've checked if their CA 
certificates come with thunderburd/outlook preinstalled. Seems like they are 
not, in which case you just wasted some money.

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