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User eric should able to access the mail using IMAP over SSL

IMAP is a very usefully protocol, but it lacks encryption. The dovecot package distributed with RHEL includes the ability to use IMAP over SSL, This requires the creation of a PEM format certificate. 6. cd /usr/share/ssl/certs 7. make dovecot.pem : Which generates the…

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User eric should able to access the mail using IMAP over SSL

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IMAP is a very usefully protocol, but it lacks encryption. The dovecot package distributed with RHEL includes the ability to use IMAP over SSL, This requires the creation of a PEM format certificate. 6. cd /usr/share/ssl/certs 7. make dovecot.pem : Which generates the dovecot.pem certificate by reading MakeFile 8. Enable the imaps protocol from /etc/dovecot.conf vi /etc/dovecot.conf protocols = imap imaps 9. service dovecot restart : Restart the Dovecot service

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#IMAP#SSL/TLS#Dovecot#mail client access

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