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11 Enter a phrase or random text, and then press Return.

The following output appears.

For Common Name, enter the server's DNS name, such as server.example.com.

For Country, enter the country in which your organization is located.

For Organization, enter the organization to which your domain name is

registered.

For Organizational Unit, enter something similar to a department name.

For State/Province, enter the full name of your state or province.

12 Enter the correct information for each prompt, which requests the components of the

certificate’s Relative Distinguished Name (RDN), and press Return after each entry.

The following output appears.

Is this OK (y/anything)?

13 Enter y, and then press Return.

The following output appears.

Wrote (n) bytes of CSR to csr.txt

When you see a message about writing to csr.txt, you have generated a CSR and

created the keychain that Mail service needs for SSL connections.

14 Log out from the server.

Note: You can use the security command to administer keychains and manipulate

keys and certificates. For more information about this command, see its man page.

Obtaining an SSL Certificate

After generating a CSR and a keychain, you continue configuring Mail service for

automatic SSL connections by purchasing an SSL certificate from a certificate authority

such as Verisign or Thawte. You can do this by completing a form on the certificate

authority’s website.

When prompted for your CSR, open the csr.txt file using a text editor, such as TextEdit.

Then, copy and paste the contents of the file into the appropriate field on the

certificate authority’s website. The websites for these certificate authorities are at:

Â www.verisign.com

Â www.thawte.com

When you receive your certificate, save it in a text file named sslcert.txt. You can save

this file with the TextEdit application. Make sure that the file is plain text, not rich text,

and that it contains only the certificate text.

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