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I am adding IMAP support to one of our products. Likely more that one person out there a needed to do this, so enjoy. I’ll take you from creating an SSL certificate to configuring hMailServer to work with both secure and regular connections to testing your setup.   Creating a Self Signed SSL Certificate   First things first you’ll need to download OpenSSL. I downloaded the 64bit 1.0 light version which required Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables (x64) to be installed first. I told the installer to put OpenSSL in my c:utilites folder.   Create a Key   Next up you’ll need to create a key. I recommend you replace with your machine name.   >openssl genrsa -out .key 1024   Certificate Request   Now you need to create a certificate request. This is ...