If you look in the Archive thru whatever web mailing list you wish, there was someone who had mentioned using openssl how to create the CA, the key, and cert.
Look it up, it'd be worth your time. --On Tuesday, May 14, 2002 7:33 PM -0700 jeff bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've gotten cyrus-imapd-2.1.4 working with the unencrypted ports and have > now moved to getting the secure ports working. I created a self-signed > certificate using: > > [root@jabba imap]# openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -config > /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf -out cyrus-imapd.pem -keyout cyrus-imapd.pem > > and entering the information. > > My imapd.conf file has: > > tls_cert_file: /var/imap/cyrus-imapd.pem > tls_key_file: /var/imap/cyrus-imapd.pem > > And it seems to work but there is a delay of about 30 seconds when I > connect for the first time in an email clients session in my imapd log > file: > > May 14 19:20:33 jabba imap3d[2648]: TLS engine: cannot load CA data > > after that it works... > > Is this an error I need to be concerned about or is this just the result > of self-siging the certificate? > > Thanks, > > Jeff Bert > >
