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  • Unable to figure out how to create ssl.cert

    From Sam Alexander@1:103/705 to All on Sunday, July 06, 2025 19:44:42
    Hey everyone --
    For the life of me can't figure out how to create ssl.cert so I can get email going. I checked this site out:
    http://wiki.synchro.net/module:certtool

    And I ran this which created csr.pem
    jsexec certtool --csr --domain totallynerd.com > csr.pem

    ... and then ran this --
    jsexec certtool --import csr.pem

    ... but it says it is unable to open csr.pem though it's there.

    I'm a bit lost from all this where ssl.cert is created. Hope someone can give some insight. Thanks.
    Sam

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Sam Alexander on Sunday, July 06, 2025 20:53:15
    Re: Unable to figure out how to create ssl.cert
    By: Sam Alexander to All on Sun Jul 06 2025 07:44 pm

    For the life of me can't figure out how to create ssl.cert so I can get email going. I checked this site out:

    sbbs automatically creates the ssl.cert file (as a self-signed certificate) when it doesn't already exist. You don't actually need this to "get email going" however. If you do actually require SMTPS to send email (e.g. to gmail.com), then you'll need a CA-signed certificate (e.g. from letsencrypt.org). See https://wiki.synchro.net/module:letsyncrypt for details.
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