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. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin