On Tuesday 08 July 2003 01:40, "Lars Holmstr�m" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use SSL based IMAP and POP3. SOm eof my clients has
> OutlookExpress6. They recieve a warning the first time
> they connect to the Courier server after startup of OE.
>
> Which certificate files should I use for OE6 ?
> Is it the .pem files as well ?

The certificate the client "sees" depends on which "service" 
you are using.  If OE uses IMAP to read mail then when it 
connects to courier's imap server, courier presents the 
imapd.pem certificate.  When OE connects to courier's esmtp 
server to send mail then courier presents the esmtpd.pem 
certificate.  If it connects to courier's pop3 server then 
courier presents the pop3d.pem certificate.  You get the 
idea.

> I did read how to import certificates in to OE6 but I can
> not admit it was totally clear. If some on know how to do
> this I would be glad.

Outlook and OE both use Internet Explorer's certificate 
store and settings, so your users need to import the 
certificate into IE.  In order to do that they need a copy 
of the certificate.  Copy the certificate itself (the part 
that looks like
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
) into a new file with a ".cer" extension.  Then make that 
file available to your users.  You can email it to people, 
put it on a file server, put it on a web browser, etc. 

Depending on their version of Windows/IE, folks can usually 
open the file in IE or Windows Explorer and it asks you if 
you want to install it.  Just follow the instructions.  

If that doesn't work then you can import it manually into IE 
by going to Tools->Internet Options in IE.  Select the 
Content tab and then click on the Certificate button.  Then 
in the Certificate Manager click on the Import button and 
follow the directions in the wizard.    Once it's imported 
then shouldn't see any error messages again   (This is for 
IE 5 but I think 6 is the same.)

Remember that the CN on the certificate should match the 
server name in OE.  If your certificate is for 
"www.domain.com" but in OE the mail server name is 
"mail.domain.com" then you'll get an error because the 
certificate being presented doesn't match the name being 
asked for.  Also, if you are using the certificates that 
courier creates automatically, then you'll need to import 
all three certificates since courier uses separate 
certificates for each service.   (I made my own using 
openssl and then symlinked to those three .pem files so 
users only had to import one certificate.)

Jeff Jansen
IVB



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