AutoSSL with Let's Encrypt 'Cert hostname DOES NOT VERIFY'

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@sahsanu

First of all, the title is a bit wrong, the fact to issue certificates for your domain is not breaking your mail server at all

I've renamed the thread thanks

@sahsanu

The EHLO banner from Exim should take the hostname from the system, did you restart your mail server?, or even better, your entire server?. If after a restart it doesn't change maybe is because there is a directive defined in the exim conf pointing to vps27185.inmotionhosting.com. You should review the cPanel manual if that is the case to change the directive to point to mail.vphcodes.com.

Yes i just found the exim manual today, and you're right there is a directive that must be changed in the exim configuration manager, I've found it I'm just a little reluctant to change it without getting confirmation about what exactly should go there. I'll post on the cpanel forums.

@sahsanu

If you plan to have more domains, every domain should be added to the certificate of the mail server, or use exim sni feature to provide different certs for the domains. Again, it is something that should be configured on exim but don't know whether cPanel allos it in an easy way or not.

this is helpful thank you.

@sahsanu

Conclusion: Your mail server should present mail.vphcodes.com on HELO banner. You should check how to configure exim to use the cert from Let's Encrypt that you already got for your web server. This is not a big issue to me.

Note: if your mail server is going to be mail.vphcopdes.com you should change your MX DNS record to point to it instead of vphcodes.com

ok so i should use the same cert that i've already received, that helps. i'll know what to ask on cpanel forums. hopefully someone else will chime in here. i'll change the mx record.