FAQforge » dovecot http://www.faqforge.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:47:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to renew the SSL certificate for dovecot on CentOShttp://www.faqforge.com/linux/how-to-renew-the-ssl-certificate-for-dovecot-on-centos/ http://www.faqforge.com/linux/how-to-renew-the-ssl-certificate-for-dovecot-on-centos/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:00:08 +0000 Till http://www.faqforge.com/?p=355 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:

/etc/init.d/dovecot restart

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