From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 16:19:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D752A16A41F for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:19:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: from smtp1.versatel.nl (smtp1.versatel.nl [62.58.50.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180D143D46 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:19:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frankstaals@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 3230 invoked by uid 0); 19 Oct 2005 16:19:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.2.5]) ([62.59.173.176]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp1.versatel.nl (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for < >; 19 Oct 2005 16:19:00 -0000 Message-ID: <43567220.9020109@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:19:44 +0200 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051015) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Trulsson References: <435607DF.2060009@gmx.net> <200510190849.j9J8nFtd044794@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <20051019090354.GA15640@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20051019090354.GA15640@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Olivier Nicole , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Imap-uw and openssl certificate X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:19:05 -0000 Erik Trulsson wrote: >On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:49:15PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > >>>Common Name (FQDN of your server) []: fstaals.net >>> >>> >>The first answer that come to my mind is that your IMAP{ server is >>certainly NOT called "fstaals.net", but it should rather be >>"imap.fstaals.net" or "mail.fstaals.net" or something. >> >> > >Don't be so certain about that. "fstaals.net" *is* a valid hostname, >and its IP-address can easily be found via DNS, and it can be connected to. > >It is often considered bad practice to have hostnames of that kind, but it >is quite possible to do it. > > > > >>You must put the exact name of your server, as it is known by DNS and >>reverse DNS. >> >> > >He probably did exactly that. > > > > > The MX-configuration of my domain is pointing to fstaals.net , to add an subdomain for my small mailserver seemed a bit exagerated, so that isn't the problem. I can add a subdomain, but I don't see why that should help since the certificate clearly says 'localhost'. -- -Frank Staals