Generating SSL Certificates for Email Clients to get rid of the Self Sign Error on FC3

[Paul Howarth]

ankush grover wrote:
> On 9/25/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 11:19 +0530, ankush grover wrote:
>> > How do I save/import these certificates in email-clients so that this
>> > message does not shows up again ?
>>
>> That depends on the clients.  It's not something I've done much about,
>> mostly just read about.  Though I did once set up my local IMAP server
>> to run "securely", and it handled accepting the certificates,
>> automatically, the first time I connected to the server.
>>
>> I see in the Evolution preferences that there's a separate
>> "certificates" section, with an import feature.  Other mail clients will
>> have their own methods of doing this.  I think you'd want to read their
>> help files, then post back with a list of which clients you need more
>> help with (program name, version, and possibly which OS they're on).
>>
>> -- 
> hey,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I know that email clients comes with importing
> option for SSL certificates but the question is how do I import,
> rather I say which file I have to import the CA files if yes then
> which CA files . Postfix is using SSL Certificates  and also Dovecot .

The approach I use to to create my own CA certificate and key and then 
use that to sign the SSL certificates for all of my servers (e.g. SMTP, 
IMAP, Web). At the client side, it's only necessary then to import the 
CA certificate and everything just works.

Paul.