On 15 Nov 2001, Brent Newson wrote: > Can anyone point me in the direction of some good documentation or info > about running imap over ssl please? > -- > Cheers > > Brent
The current version of UW-imap can be built with OpenSSL. The only problem I had was trying to generate a certificate in the form it wanted. The information for that can be found in the latest pre-release version imap-2001a.RELEASE-CANDIDATE.4 (and thanks to Breeze Howard for the tip). Excerpt follows. >From the imap-2001a.RELEASE-CANDIDATE.4/docs/SSLBUILD file. > Last Updated: 3 October 2001 > > The imapd.pem and ipop3d.pem must contain a private key and a > certificate. The private key must not be encrypted. > > The following command to openssl can be used to create a self-signed > certificate with a 10-year expiration: > req -new -x509 -nodes -out imapd.pem -keyout imapd.pem -days 3650 > > *** IMPORTANT *** > We DO NOT recommend, encourage, or sanction the use of self-signed > certificates. Nor will we be responsible for any problems (including security > problems!) which result from your use of a self-signed certificate. Use of > self-signed certificates should be limited to testing only. Buy a real > certificate from a certificate authority! > *** IMPORTANT *** === JJ ============================================================= ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
