Note: The following is part of a series of steps to setup an email server using Exim 4.x, with imap and webmail access. It will use winbind to get user information from an NT server. If you found this page via a search engine it may not cover what you need or you may need to start at the beginning to understand everything I have done.

(Note: The following is for Exim 4.2x. Some config options have changed in Exim since then.)

Within these pages I attempt to document what I am doing to setup an Linux email server that gets user information from a Windows NT server. The main reason for doing this was to get rid of Microsoft Exchange. Not because Exchange wasn't working, though I have encountered problems with it, but because we were not using all of it's features and, being a small company, we really cannot afford it. This does not mean we will not be making the appropriate donations once we settle on the packages we will be using.

Note: The following is part of a series of steps to setup an email server using Exim 4.x, with imap and webmail access. It will use winbind to get user information from an NT server. If you found this page via a search engine it may not cover what you need or you may need to start at the beginning to understand everything I have done.

See http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/pkcs12faq.html and http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/pkcs12.html for more information.

This, http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/mail_client_tests.html, may also be of interest.

If you have a certificate from a certificate authority, you can skip the first two steps.

PKCS12, Personal Information Exchange Syntax Standard, certificates can be used for things such as email signing and file signing. They are different from other certificates in that rather than being only the public or private certificate, they are a combination of both plus the root certificate. This means the person they are made for only has to worry with one file.