Generating SSL Certificates for Email Clients to get rid of the Self Sign Error on FC3

[Thomas Cameron]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> ankush grover wrote:
>> On 9/25/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 11:19 +0530, ankush grover wrote:
>>> > How do I save/import these certificates in email-clients so that this
>>> > message does not shows up again ?
>>>
>>> That depends on the clients.  It's not something I've done much about,
>>> mostly just read about.  Though I did once set up my local IMAP server
>>> to run "securely", and it handled accepting the certificates,
>>> automatically, the first time I connected to the server.
>>>
>>> I see in the Evolution preferences that there's a separate
>>> "certificates" section, with an import feature.  Other mail clients will
>>> have their own methods of doing this.  I think you'd want to read their
>>> help files, then post back with a list of which clients you need more
>>> help with (program name, version, and possibly which OS they're on).
>>>
>>> -- 
>> hey,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. I know that email clients comes with importing
>> option for SSL certificates but the question is how do I import,
>> rather I say which file I have to import the CA files if yes then
>> which CA files . Postfix is using SSL Certificates  and also Dovecot .
> 
> The approach I use to to create my own CA certificate and key and then 
> use that to sign the SSL certificates for all of my servers (e.g. SMTP, 
> IMAP, Web). At the client side, it's only necessary then to import the 
> CA certificate and everything just works.
> 
> Paul.

Paul -

How did you do that?  I mean make the CA cert?  The Dovecot and Sendmail 
(in my case) certs are well documented, but I would love to know how you 
generated your own CA certificate under FC.

Thanks,
Thomas