On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Can't you generate your own certificate? There's no good reason > > someone will trust it, but at least you can encrypt your mail > > sessions... > > Yes, you can. And of course, there's plenty of good reasons people will > trust it: only your friends will be using it, they trust you, and you > tell them it's cool =) The real main issue here is that the major > clients in use today usually give warnings when using a certificate not > signed by a "trusted" political partner^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H certificate > authority like Veri$ign. >
Yep. Other than that annoying popup mozilla etc. gives you there is nothing wrong with self-signed certificates. > openssl will. Also look into stunnel, which will wrap any regular imap > daemon into an SSL socket. The stunnel documentation should also tell > you how to generate a certificate with openssl. It should also be in the > list archives, and in a HOWTO somewhere, but if you need help, I can go > look at my system log to see the command I used when I was setting up my > imap/ssl server -- just ask. > All the IMAP servers in Debian--cyrus, courier, and uw, have SSL versions now so using stunnel is a bit pointless. FYI, uw-imapd-ssl will generate the certificate for you upon installation. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's a girl! See the pictures - http://www.braincells.com/shailaja/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
