Re: proxy / email / certificates help

Ok. Is there a recommended place for the TLS, or either one is fine. 
Just confiming.

Sounds like I'll need to remove a cert on one of the servers 
thinking..Yes/No

Thanks Frank.

On 9/20/2025 12:38 PM, Frank Gingras wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM Bret Stern 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>     Hi there,
>
>     I'm setting up and email server which is reverse proxyied behind a
>     front
>     end apache server.
>
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>     For the same domain...my dns has both a primary web server server,
>     and
>     an email server sitting behind a single wan ip.
>
>     First question.
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>     Is this possible?
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>     At this point all email is working except smtp, which I'm thinking
>     is a
>     certificate problem.
>
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>     So I have certicates on the email server apache and the apache server
>     providing the reverse proxy.
>
>     And of course Postfix and Dovecot could have config issues, but
>     mostly
>     here I'm looking for verifying my described concept is
>
>     achievable using apache.
>
>
>     Comments or links to feasability and tips are always appreciated.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Bret
>
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> Email and HTTP server had nothing to do with each other, practically.  
> A reverse HTTP proxy can be used to host a webmail interface to handle 
> those emails, sure, but then just handle the TLS termination either on 
> the edge, or the inner server.
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> For the latter, just use SSLProxyEngine on.