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+--- doc/spec.txt.orig Wed Dec 19 13:50:32 2001
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+ be adequate for all your requirements if you are mainly interested in
+ encrypting transfers, and not in secure identification.
+
++However, many clients require that the certificate presented by Exim be a user
++(also called "leaf" or "site") certificate, and not a self-signed certificate.
++In this case, the self-signed certificate described above must be installed on
++the client host as a trusted root certification authority and the certificate
++used by Exim must be a user certificate signed with that self-signed
++certificate.
++
++For information on creating self-signed CA certificates and using them to sign
++user certificates, see the "General implementation overview" chapter of the
++Open-source PKI Book, available online at:
++
++ http://ospkibook.sourceforge.net/
++
+
+
+ 39. CUSTOMIZING ERROR AND WARNING MESSAGES