From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Apr 5 02:27:31 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFC0F8BB42 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 02:27:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (ns.dreamchaser.org [66.109.141.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "nightmare.dreamchaser.org", Issuer "nightmare.dreamchaser.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85CAF81284 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 02:27:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway [192.168.151.122]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w352RSP9064707 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2018 20:27:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) To: FreeBSD Mailing List Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org From: Gary Aitken Subject: sendmail certs -- which letsencrypt cert to use for ca Message-ID: <655c9be3-ece7-eeab-300f-56be88c3267f@dreamchaser.org> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 20:26:47 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 02:27:31 -0000 I'm wanting to switch the self-certified certs generated by sendmail when it first starts over to ones certified via letsencrypt. Letsencrypt generates four files: cert.pem, privkey,pem, chain.pem and fullchain.pem As I understand it, chain.pem contains intermediates, and fullchain contains the main cert + intermediates. Sendmail's generated certs consist of a cert, a privkey, and a CA. Which of chain.pem or fullchain.pem should be used for the CA, or will either work? Thanks, Gary