Secure Email
I’ve been wanting to setup secure email on the server so I can use a mail client on my laptop to access and send email regardless of what network I’m connected to. Setting up IMAP over SSL was very simple. I changed the “disabled” entry in my /etc/xinetd.d/imaps file to no and then removed the default localhost imapd.pem certificate in /usr/share/ssl/certs and created a new one using make imapd.pem (here are some instructions I followed). I restarted the xinetd daemon and configured my mail client to use IMAP over SSL and everything worked. Very nice!
That takes care of receiving mail but I have a feeling setting up SMTP over SSL might be a little more difficult. Esspecially since I’m still using sendmail. Perhaps this would be a good time to switch over to postfix. Hmm… I think I’ll save all that for another day.