POP3 SSL connection uses localhost security certificate

[Freddie Bleiweiss]

I have numerous customers using Thunderbird and Eudora mail clients. When signing on to either retrieve or send mail (SMTP Authentication) they receive the following message.

"localhost" is a site that uses a security certificate to encrypt data during transmission, but its certificate is expired on 09/17/2009 9:28 PM."

Every domain on the server has a self-signed certificate. The email clients all use FQDN's (mail.domain.com) to specify the mail server.

I am puzzled as to why the correct domain certificate is not being offered. Any ideas on how to resolve this problem?

Using RedHat Linux 2.6.9-89.0.16.EL, Qmail and Plesk 9.2.3

 

[IgorG]

Make sure that IP address of domain is shared. So, certificate should be installed to and assigned from repository of domain but not from administrator's one (Server -> Certificates).

 

[Freddie Bleiweiss]

The IP address is shared and the certificate is assigned from the repository of the domain. The problem persists.

 

[codesmith]

Web server certificates are different than mail server certificates. You need separate ones. You can do a self signed cert for qmail - just look around for steps. It's straight forward.