CORRECTION:

Just discovered that actually the Postfix cert is being sent to the client 
regardless of the configuration…so now the remaining question is why would is 
the PF cert  sent rather than the cert I have configured in the dovecot.conf 
file?



> On Jul 25, 2020, at 2:02 PM, Antonio Leding <t...@leding.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a Dovecot (v2.3.10.1) + Postfix (v3.5.3) both cfg; d to use TLS 
> however each using different certificates.  In addition, I have cfg’d a DNS 
> CNAME that points to the server A record.  For example,
> 
> mail.example.com <http://mail.example.com/> (A) —> 1.2.3.4
> alias.example.con (CNAME) —> mail.example.com <http://mail.example.com/>
> 
> When setting up a new account in Apple Mail, if I specify the server name as 
> the “Host Name” (i.e. mil server), the cert that is cfg’d in Dovecot is 
> received and everything works fine.  However, if I instead use the alias 
> CNAME as the “Host Name”,  then the cert for Postfix is sent to the client.  
> This causes issues because I do not have the CNAME in the SAN of the Postfix 
> certificate.
> 
> I doubt this is a bug because I have to think others have employed a similar 
> configuration so I must be missing something here — any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> 

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