a question about certificates from letsencrypt

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Fri Aug 19 12:12:19 UTC 2016



On 19.08.2016 15:11, Andreas Meyer wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Certificates from letsencrypt are renewed every three months.
>
> Does that mean a MUA has to accept the renewed certificates manually
> everytime it is renewed?
>
> Sorry if this is OT!
>
> Greetings
>
>  Andreas

Depends how your MUA validates the certificate.

If it just checks CA, then no. Also I don't think the private key
changes, so it should not cause recheck either. Other checks, maybe.

Aki


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