> On 2016 Jul 27, at 15:20, Joseph Tam wrote:
>
> Well, yes, that's what you would expect. You've told your mail client
> to connect to "45.56.81.181", the client starts the SSL negotiation
> and finds the certificate is made out for "sheepsystems.com", and your
> mail client complains about th
> On 2016 Jul 27, at 15:20, Joseph Tam wrote:
>
> Well, yes, that's what you would expect. You've told your mail client
> to connect to "45.56.81.181", the client starts the SSL negotiation
> and finds the certificate is made out for "sheepsystems.com", and your
> mail client complains about th
The trouble appears when I attempt to configure a client account in
Mail.app on my Mac. For the POP server name, I enter my VPS?
?45.56.81.181", because public DNS is still pointing to my existing
host. I set the account to use the Apple TLS certificate, and then
click to save this new account
I’ve configured Dovecot and Postfix on a new VPS running Ubuntu 16.04, using
Linode’s tutorial [1], to require authentication and SSL encryption for both
POP3 and SMTP. All looks OK to me except, when my email client app (macOS
Mail.app) tries to log in, it says that my cert is invalid.
The t
