280 Appendix A. Advanced Features
Installing SSL Certificate for Qmail
To install a custom SSL certificate for Qmail on a Plesk server, follow these steps:
1 Create a combined .pem certificate file.
To create a combined .pem certificate file, start your favorite text editor and paste
the contents of each certificate file and the private key in the file in the following
order:
1. The private key
2. The primary certificate
3. The intermediate certificate
4. The root certificate
Make sure that you include the begin and end tags of the key and each certificate
including the dash lines. The resulting text should look like this:
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
..........
..........
(Your Private Key here)
..........
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----..........
(Your Primary SSL certificate here)
..........
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
..........
(Your Intermediate certificate here)
..........
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
..........
(Your Root certificate here)
..........
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
2 Save the combined certificate file as plesk.pem.
3 Log in to a Plesk server through SSH as a root user.
4 Download the combined certificate file plesk.pem.
5 Make a backup copy of the existing default SSL certificate for Qmail.
