mockingbird
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I have opted to use the Cloudfare certificate in lieu of LetsEncrypt in DirectAdmin for my domain, but this introduces an issue. The CloudFare certificate only operates properly on http. It will work with the mail as well, but it is no better than a self-signed certificate because it is considered untrusted for anything other than http.
Now ideally, there would be an option somewhere in DirectAdmin to request a LetsEncrypt certificate for only certain subdomains (i.e. mail).
Now, from what I've been reading, the correct way to go about this is to create a new domain (read: NOT subdomain) and name the domain as a subdomain (so in my case, mail.mydomain.com).
This is probably not the recommended way to do it at all, and I can think of a few issues with this, off the top of my head. First, all my email addresses would now become "name@mail.domain.com" instead of "name@domain.com". And even if I could get this to work with aliases, spam filters would be suspicious of the address "name@mail.domain.com" trying to pass itself off as "name@domain.com" when sending email.
The whole reason I'm doing using cloudfare in the first place is because a certain blacklist got hot and bothered by my "tainted" DNS provider.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
Now ideally, there would be an option somewhere in DirectAdmin to request a LetsEncrypt certificate for only certain subdomains (i.e. mail).
Now, from what I've been reading, the correct way to go about this is to create a new domain (read: NOT subdomain) and name the domain as a subdomain (so in my case, mail.mydomain.com).
This is probably not the recommended way to do it at all, and I can think of a few issues with this, off the top of my head. First, all my email addresses would now become "name@mail.domain.com" instead of "name@domain.com". And even if I could get this to work with aliases, spam filters would be suspicious of the address "name@mail.domain.com" trying to pass itself off as "name@domain.com" when sending email.
The whole reason I'm doing using cloudfare in the first place is because a certain blacklist got hot and bothered by my "tainted" DNS provider.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.