Expired self-signed TLS certificate in InterScan Messaging Security Suite (IMSS)

- Updated:
- 9 Oct 2015
- Product/Version:
- InterScan Messaging Security Suite 7.1 Windows
- InterScan Messaging Security Suite 7.5 Windows
- Platform:
- Windows 2003 Enterprise Server
- Windows 2003 Standard Server Edition
- Windows 2003 Web Server Edition

Summary

When IMSS for Windows self-signed Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate expired, IMSS may fail to deliver incoming emails using the certificate with its TLS settings. This can also affect clients who did an in-place upgrade of IMSS 7.0 to version 7.1, or IMSS 7.1 to IMSS 7.5.

Details

To resolve this issue:

Generate a new self-signed certificate.
Run the following command to change the certificate format to PFX:
openssl pkcs12 -export -out text.pfx -in certificate.pem

where "certificate.pem" is the .PEM file generated in Step 1.

Rating:

Category:

Configure; Troubleshoot

Solution Id:

1056226

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