uw-imap certificate errors

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:46:39 PDT 2004


An unnamed Administration source, Ken Moffat, wrote:
% I have a small imap setup using uw-imapd and ssh on Debian/Libranet, 
% with the Exim mailer. I somehow screwed up my certificate so it produces 
% errors, indicating it belongs to the wrong name, and that I'm receiving 
% a message with incorrect Message Authentication code. I'm at a loss as 
% to how to fix this. It happens each time I try to connect to read a 
% message. I think I need to reconfigure the uw-imapd server, but I've 
% tried dpkg-reconfigure uw-imapd, which works but produces a generic 
% certificate that causes the second error (incorrect Message auth. code).
% Someone with ssh knowledge know how to generate a good cert so I can put 
% it in /etc/ssl/certs/ ?
% What is there now is:
% 0b3e1c23.0 
% imapd.pem

Does anything at http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html answer
your question?

Kurt
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