[Dovecot] SSL / TLS

Carlos Williams carloswill at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 17:43:20 EEST 2009


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Steffen
Kaiser<skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Carlos Williams wrote:
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>> No I do not. I don't even have a /etc/ssl/ direcory on my mail server
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> hmm, do you have openssl installed at all :) ?
> I had guessed that any openssl package comes with at least a bunch of CA
> certs.

So I have OpenSSL installed. I am creating the SSL certificate to use
for my mail server via
TLS. When I am on Verisign's website, they ask for "Server Platform"
and normally I would
select "Apache" but I don't have "Apache" installed on this machine. I
just want to use this
SSL certificate for TLS authentication and nothing more.

I must determine what option I need to select for "Server Platform"
and then generate a
CSR (Certificate Signing Request) on the Verisign website in order to
get a public key.

Am I doing this all wrong or do I simply need to pick anything under
"Server Platform"?


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