[Dovecot] self-signed certificates

[Tilman Linneweh]

On Mar 8, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Benjamin wrote:
> i'm having troubles installing self-signed certificates for dovecot.
> After installing, dovecot generates a key and cert. But he is using  
> the wrong common name (where does dovecot get this name from?). I  
> tried deleting them and installing a handcrafted cert with this:
>
> openssl genrsa -out mail.key 2048
> openssl req -new -key mail.key -out mail.csr
> openssl x509 -req -days 4312 -in mail.csr -out mail.cert -signkey  
> mail.key
>
> after that i tried to update the dovecont.conf to point to the new  
> files. But dovecot refuses to read them, i allways get an error,  
> that dovecot can't read the certificate file.

There is a script dovecot-1.0.beta3/doc/mkcert.sh which should  
contain all the information you need.

regards
tilman