Imap-uw and openssl certificate

Frank Staals frankstaals at gmx.net
Wed Oct 19 09:27:05 PDT 2005


albi wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:46:23 +0200
>Frank Staals <frankstaals at gmx.net> wrote:
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>>Common Name (FQDN of your server) []: fstaals.net
>>Common Name (default) []: localhost
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>>When I try to connect with my mail-client ( thunderbird ) it states that 
>>the mail-certificate doesn't match with the server I'm trying to access. 
>>When looking at the certificate in thunderbird it says "certificate for 
>>localhost" instead of "certificate for fstaals.net". I don't realy know 
>>how to change this, so I'm kind of stuck.
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>/usr/ports/mail/imap-uw ] # grep -r -i "cert" *
>shows that you can edit files/imap-uw.cnf and change the localhost-part
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Thanks, that did the trick

>however, you might want to consider installing a better imap-server like
>e.g. dovecot (/usr/ports/mail/dovecot)
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I'm going to read as much as possible about that and see if it will 
provide a great advantage compared to imap-uw for the goals I have. 
Thanks again





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-Frank Staals




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