Peter wrote:
On 03/04/2015 08:12 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
My question is simply: Does one require a separate cert for dovecot?
Dovecot does not care if you use the same cert for other applications.
Thank you, that was my question.
Your question is missing the point, others are trying to tell you that the real issue is that the cert was not created properly for the hostname that the IMAP clients are connecting to. This has nothing to do with sharing the certificate with other applications.
I don't really care what is wrong with it, if I can do without it. I'm using the /etc/pki/tls/ cert and key in dovecot now, and they seem to work fine.
Incidentally, I created the /etc/pki/dovecot/ cert and key years ago, and never got this flood of warning messages until recently.
If in fact it is unnecessary to create a special cert and key for dovecot it seems to me remiss not to say this in the dovecot installation doc.