I'm a novice regarding use of SSL, and I'm trying to set up sqwebmail to use it, but I can't find much information, even by googling.

I'm using sqwebmail-5.0.1 which is oldish at this point, but in this version the INSTALL info states that --enable-https=auto is the default, and I haven't overridden that, so I don't expect I'll need to recompile.

All I can find is that there is a signature files with a certain name:

#define SIGNATURE "sqwebmail-sig"

Curiously the source only seems to refer to this file in a few isolated places:

sqwebmail/newmsg.c: if ((fp=fopen(SIGNATURE, "r")) != NULL) sqwebmail/newmsg_newdraft.c:FILE *fp=fopen(SIGNATURE, "r"); sqwebmail/pref.c: if ((fp=fopen(SIGNATURE, "w")) != NULL) sqwebmail/pref.c: if ((fp=fopen(SIGNATURE, "r")) != NULL)

which wouldn't seem to account for the full functionality of an SSL connection.

Could someone give a quick synopsis of the steps needed to set up sqwebmail to use an SSL connection, or point me to some point me to some place where I can go read?

I use sqwebmail at several "webmail.blah" host names. I am guessing I have to create a certificate for each one. Last time I tried to create a certificate via openssl, I got totally lost and gave up. I use Webmin and it has an interface for creating its own certificate, so I had no problems there.

Would appreciate any pointers.