Renewing Your Dovecot SSL Certificate

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On my Debian box the following were used:

/etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem and /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem were the default locations check your /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf before running.

openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -out /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem -keyout /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem -days 3650

/etc/init.d/dovecot restart

I got tired of renewing the certificate so I issued one that lasts 10 years. (apparently it does not take that much to make me tired)