How to renew the SSL certificate for dovecot on CentOS

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Make a backup of the old key and certificate file

mv /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem.old
mv /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.key /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.key.old

Create the new SSL certificate

openssl genrsa -out /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.key 1024
openssl req -new -x509 -key /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.key -out /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem -days 730

Restart Dovecot:

service dovecot restart

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