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Date:      Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:19:44 +0200
From:      Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Imap-uw and openssl certificate
Message-ID:  <43567220.9020109@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051019090354.GA15640@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
References:  <435607DF.2060009@gmx.net> <200510190849.j9J8nFtd044794@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <20051019090354.GA15640@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>

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Erik Trulsson wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:49:15PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
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>>>Common Name (FQDN of your server) []: fstaals.net
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>>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.
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>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.
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>It is often considered bad practice to have hostnames of that kind, but it
>is quite possible to do it.
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>>You must put the exact name of your server, as it is known by DNS and
>>reverse DNS.
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>He probably did exactly that.
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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





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