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Manvendra Bhangui edited this page Sep 11, 2023 · 2 revisions

NAME

mkimapdcert - create a test SSL certificate for IMAP over SSL

SYNOPSIS

/usr/libexec/indimail/mkimapdcert

DESCRIPTION

IMAP over SSL requires a valid, signed, X.509 certificate. The default location for the certificate file is /etc/indimail/certs/imapd.pem. mkimapdcert generates a self-signed X.509 certificate, mainly for testing. For production use the X.509 certificate must be signed by a recognized certificate authority, in order for mail clients to accept the certificate.

/etc/indimail/certs/imapd.pem must be owned by the user and have no group or world permissions. The mkimapdcert command will enforce this. To prevent an unfortunate accident, mkimapdcert will not work if /etc/indimail/certs/imapd.pem already exists.

mkimapdcert requires OpenSSL to be installed.

FILES

/etc/indimail/certs/imapd.pem

X.509 certificate.

/etc/indimail/imapd.cnf

Parameters used by OpenSSL to create the X.509 certificate.

SEE ALSO

courier(8)[1]

AUTHOR Sam Varshavchik

Author

NOTES 1. courier(8) http://www.courier-mta.org/courier.html

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