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Enable Dovecot SSL

/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf requires these settings

ssl_disable = no
ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/certificate.pem
ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/key.pem

The certificate and key must be created before either using the dovecot tools or the way I’m describing that in-depth.

SASL + Postfix with Debian Lenny

In the last days I have reinstalled a mail server on a new virtual host and upgraded from debian etch to Lenny. The initial set was done by a friend of mine following this instructions. With the upgrade to Lenny however a few adjustments were required. So I describe the new setup here.

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The dreading timezone issue with JSF and how it hits you again with daylights saving

JSF is converting all date/datetime types into GMT base for rendering. This can cause a date offset of n-hours to be shown depending on the timezone you are in. You have 2 choices to deal with it:
Either you implement an application wide (global) date converter as described here or you add the timezone attribute to each of the convertDateTime tags.

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