First off: SuSE comes with two IMAP servers. I suggest you use Cyrus imapd, it's the best one of the two. I think in the 7.3 distro it was accidentally left off the cd's, but you can get it at ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/n1 or something As to the certificate: you can either create a self-signed certificate (which means you will have to import it into whatever mailclient you are using or get messages about unrecognized signers) or you can generate a certificate signing request and buy a certificate. If you want users to use IMAPS I suggest buying a certificate, because if they get a warning message every time they connect your helpdesk will go mad with calls. If you want to use a self-signed certificate, try openssl req -new -key your_key_name.pem -x509 -out your_certificate_name.pem you will then need to add the location of the key to your /etc/imapd.conf (try man imapd.conf after you've installed Cyrus) HTH Stefan Francisco José Escarpa Sánchez-Garnica wrote:
Hello.
I've a doubt about how to configure an imapd over ssl/ssh.
I use Suse 7.3, and installed all the stuff (imap, ssl ... ), and configured it as the manuals told.
1st.: ¿ how can I get the imapd certificate ?. There is not any clue in the whole documentation packed with the distro !. I found a way at
http://www-itg.lbl.gov/~boverhof/openssl_certs.htm
but still doesn't work.
2st.: The place imapd looks to find the certificate doesn't exists (/usr/src/openssl-0.9.6/certs/); I don't know if is a "feature". I create the directory, copied the generated cert ( not sure if ok ), and .... doesn't works.
¿ any idea ?
Thanks in advance.
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