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Mark Constable wrote:
| So we are talking about this certificate I guess...
| https://certificates.starfieldtech.com/repository/sf_issuing.crt
| and my courierd (0.47-3) already has this reference
| /etc/courierd:TLS_TRUSTCERTS=/usr/lib/courier/rootcerts
| so I copied the above line to imapd-ssl and the sf_issuing.crt
| file to the referred directory and restarted courier. No go.
| The other certs have some different format prepended (I presume)
| and are called *.pem and I think I need to use "c_rehash" ?
|
| Would you mind outlining a couple of extra steps please ?

Dear Mark,

The basic steps are to convert the certificate to PEM format and then to
run c_rehash in that directory to create the hash of the certificate for
openssl to use.  So assuming that you have saved the sf_issuing.crt file
to /usr/lib/courier/rootcerts then you would run

openssl x509 -in /usr/lib/courier/rootcerts/sf_issuing.crt -out \
~ /usr/lib/courier/rootcerts/sf_issuing.pem -outform pem

c_rehash /usr/lib/courier/rootcerts

That's it.  I'm not even sure the first step is necessary since the
sf_issuing.crt file looks like it's already in PEM format.  You may just
be able to change the name to 'sf_issuing.pem'.  But it can't hurt to
convert it anyway.

All the certs in the courier rootcert directory have the text of the
cert included in the PEM file.  I assume that's just to make it human
readable since I think the programs ignore everything except the
BEGIN..END blocks, but I could be wrong.  If you want to include the
text as well you can add '-text' to that first openssl command and it
will include the text of the cert as well.

Try that and see if it works.  I'm strictly an openssl user; I don't
understand the "deeper magic" going on there. :-)

Jeff Jansen
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