Email client complains about old dovecot server certificate

[dsp76]

Hi,
my IMAP client complains, that the certificate for bubba.excito.com is out of date. How do I create a new one and where? Similiar to this How-to:
http://excito.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=780

I tried to follow this one:
http://excito.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=350

Its a very detailed How-to, limpo obviously spent a lot of time (respect!). But most likely I didn't manage to extract the right steps and run into problems....

Is there an easier way? Wich steps do I need to go?

dsp

[Ubi]

Very easy:

first remove old certificate:

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find /etc/ssl -name dovecot.* -exec rm {} \;

then create a new one:

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dpkg-reconfigure dovecot-common

more info here:
http://jerakeen.org/blog/2005/08/ssl/

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[pa]

As this have come up with Bubba|Two as well, I figured that I should make a little note here.

You need to have a FQDN (Fully Quilified Domain Name) ie "mine.domain.org", and that name needs to be specified in your "/etc/hosts" file since this is where the reconfigure script will look for the name of your unit. See Ubi's link above for more info on this.

Currently this file have to be edited by hand, since there are no options to set the domain of bubba in the UI.

Using the easyfind name will not work, that is a location service not a true DNS name.

/PA