Topic: setting up a public pop server

[tymiles]

You can use the secure contrib from Damien Curtains to secure your pop connections. I have an e-smith server and I own the domain linuxosuser.com and I gave away 150 e-mail accounts on my server to users and they all connect by webmail or by using outlook and using the secure contib which works great and keeps things secure. (I also use that for my SMTP)

Sounds like its working for you.  I hope I have explained my question below for you correctly
I have setup the secure contrib main on my sever.  It basically is working however I'm try to setup secure connection for the SMTP server.  This requires a certificate to allow the connection.  I was able to create a key for our virtual domain for remote httpd webmail access but I can't get a client program (like Outlook/Mozzila to login with the server.  It keeps using the default key which is for the local domain.  Basically I want to have SMTP access remotely but with SSL login.  The remote works ok as long as I stick with port 25.  But when I try to use the secure connection on port 465 it gets rejected.  Any suggestions?  I'm thinking I have to tell the IMAP server about the security keys some how but I don't know how.  From my understanding the way it works when you login with IMAP this enables you to use the SMTP server since SMTP does really have a secure way
of loging in.

Thanks Ed

Did you add certificates other then the one that the server makes when you first installed the server?

[Anonymous]

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Did you add certificates other then the one that the server makes when you first installed the server?[/quote]

I just replaced the certificates that were there in
/home/e-smith/ssl.key and ssl.crt.

This fixed the problem with the httpd Webmail certificate.  But email clients still are using the old certificate.