How to rebuild your SNI configuration

Introduction

There may be times when rebuilding your Dovecot SNI configuration is necessary, such as when your email client encounters SSL errors when receiving but not sending emails. This article provides the steps to rebuild the Dovecot SNI configuration.

Procedure

1. Access the server's command line as the 'root' user via SSH or "Terminal" in WHM.
2. Backup the SNI configuration file.

3. cp -via /etc/dovecot/sni.conf{,.$(date +%s)}

4. Rebuild the SNI configuration file using the build_mail_sni script.

5. /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/build_mail_sni --rebuild_dovecot_sni_conf

6. Restart the mail services.

7. /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/build_mail_sni --restartsrvs