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How can I change the default webmail certificate for a self signed one with a more appropriate name?

The default says it was generated by 'someorganization' instead of the name of the server itself. I would like mine to read the same name as the DNS address we have given webmail, webmail.mirifice.com.

Any help appreciated.

Marky

You will need to have it signed by a Certificate Authority. You give them a Certificate Signing Request and they sign it and send you the certificate file. Or if you don't want a trusted certificate, then you can generate and sign it yourself, of course, using the same instructions to get a CSR.

https://knowledge.verisign.com/support/ssl-certificates-support/index?page=content&id=AR645

I can generate the certificate on the Scalix machine, as I did for IMAP and SMTP access.
But I don't know which file to edit to tell webmail which certificate it should be using.

I cannot see this in the FAQ's so perhaps I am looking in the wrong place?

I suspect this is the same cert that handles iCAL and Admin Console. I need to change this from the default to a self signed one with the correct server alias, mail.mirifice.com.

I've been searching for the correct file to change the certificates too this weekend, initially i suspected /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf is the relevant one (thats the path on CentOS 5, other Distros may differ), where the certificates are included. However changing them there had no effect whatsoever on webmail/SAC, which left me a little wondering.

Finally I found that I had to change this in the two files matched by:
/etc/opt/scalix-tomcat/connector/*/instance*conf

And now it's working fine. I've got a PositiveSSL Certificate from PSW Group / Comodo (https://www.psw.net/) for only 13€/Year and things seem to be working perfectly fine now with:


in those two files. I've also copied the contents of those files (CRT+KEY+CABUNDLE) into a single PEM file (stunnel.pem) and stunnel seems to be very happy with this too

Thank you for posting this. I also had changed the ssl conf and the httpd conf but it didn't change anything on my site until I changed the instance-scalix.conf So happy to get rid of the annoying security alerts!