uw-imap certificate errors

[Ken Moffat]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>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
>  
>
I think this is a problem with mozilla/netscape mail. It took me a while 
to figure out that I could delete old certs from the mozilla cache and 
fix the problem. I"m stilll unable to delete the offending cert in 
Netscape 7 on WinXP. working on it.
I'll have a look at that site, thanks.