Greg Bailey wrote: >> I'm really just asking if I cannot just use what I take to be >> the standard openssl certificate and key in /etc/pki/tls/ >> Do I really have to create up a special cert for dovecot? > There's not really a "standard" SSL certificate. Perhaps you're > referring to a "default" certificate used by the webserver? No. I should have said "standard locate". I think both Fedora and CentOS create the folders /etc/pki/tls/{certs,private}, so I assume this means that certs and keys should be store there. > What I typically do is get a real, but free, SSL certificate from some > place like StartSSL (www.startssl.com), and then copy the key and > certificate to the location that's specified for use by dovecot. My question exactly - is there any reason why one should not do that? Or even more simply, give the locations /etc/pki/tls/{certs,private} in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf ? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin