Imap-uw and openssl certificate

Frank Staals frankstaals at gmx.net
Wed Oct 19 09:19:05 PDT 2005


Erik Trulsson wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:49:15PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
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>>>Common Name (FQDN of your server) []: fstaals.net
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>>The first answer that come to my mind is that your IMAP{ server is
>>certainly NOT called "fstaals.net", but it should rather be
>>"imap.fstaals.net" or "mail.fstaals.net" or something.
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>Don't be so certain about that.  "fstaals.net" *is* a valid hostname,
>and its IP-address can easily be found via DNS, and it can be connected to.
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>It is often considered bad practice to have hostnames of that kind, but it
>is quite possible to do it.
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>>You must put the exact name of your server, as it is known by DNS and
>>reverse DNS.
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>He probably did exactly that.
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The MX-configuration of my domain is pointing to fstaals.net , to add an 
subdomain for my small mailserver seemed a bit exagerated, so that isn't 
the problem. I can add a subdomain, but I don't see why that should help 
since the certificate clearly says 'localhost'.

-- 
-Frank Staals




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