[CentOS] Ignorant question on SSL certs

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Jason Pyeron wrote:
>
>>> I'm getting endless complaints about my dovecot cert,
>>
>> Exact message please?
>
> The certificate does not apply to the given host

This one indicates, I believe, that when you created the certs, you didn't
use the hostname of the system that you're running now, or maybe that it
wants either the FQDN, or the shortname, and it's finding the opposite.

> The certificate is not signed by any trusted certificate authority
<snip>
This one will always be there, since you're not a root c/a.

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