[Dovecot] SSL

Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh mohsen at pahlevanzadeh.org
Sat Apr 11 07:52:31 EEST 2009


Dear Sebastian,
I don't know how to make key/cert for imap & pop.
Would you please help me?
Yours,
Mohsen
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 17:57 +0200, Sebastian Kayser wrote:
> Hi Mohsen,
> 
> Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote:
> > I have installed qmail+dovecot+vpopmail.
> > It work, Now i wanna enable ssl on dovecot.i have pop3 & imap on my
> > dovocet.When i was reading SSL on wiki, i saw config of that i define 4
> > CA file(2cert+2key), But i see 2 ca file in mkcert.(1cert+1key)
> > It seem wiki or mkcert.sh is incomplete.
> 
> you only need one key and the related certificate, so you are fine with
> the two files that mkcert.sh creates for you. Just set the ssl_key_file
> and ssl_cert_file directives once in the global section of your
> configuration.
> 
> What you _can_ do (and that's what the Wiki says) is to configure a
> separate key/certificate pair for each daemon. One for the imap daemon
> and a different one for the pop3 daemon and only then you would need 4
> files (2 * (key + certificate)).
> 
> Sebastian



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