http://www.cacert.org is free of charge and makes it easy to use proper
certs. You just need to import their root CA on your clients.
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 11:14 -0700, Don O'Neil wrote:
> We use Comodo on our main server, but I don't see any way to specify 'Exim'
> as the certificate type (you can choose apache, etc...). I don't have a
> problem paying, I just need to know specifically what I need to buy.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@??? [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On
> Behalf Of Darton Williams
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:42 AM
> To: Exim Users
> Subject: Re: [exim] SSL Certificate for secure POP/SMTP
>
> On 9/6/07, Don O'Neil <lists@???> wrote:
> > Where/how do I create a 'real' SSL certificate, rather than a self
> > signed one, for secure smtp/pop so that the annoying message in
> > outlook/thunderbird stops coming up saying the certificate is not from
> > a trusted source? I have an SSL cert for my web server for apache, can I
> use a variant of that?
>
> You need a "trusted signer", one of the companies that issues certificates
> for a fee, such as verisign, thawte, etc. The other alternative, appropriate
> for intranet environments but not public systems, is to self-sign and have
> all clients install the certificate chain.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Darton
>
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