Zimbra commercial SSL renewal procedure

My quick notes on what I have to do every year to upgrade my Zimbra mail certificate with a new Namecheap SSL certificate:

  1. Request CSR
    • /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcertmgr createcsr comm -new -subject "/C=COUNTRY/ST=STATE/L=LOCATION/O=ORG/OU=OU/CN=CN.EXAMPLE.ORG" -subjectAltNames CN.EXAMPLE.ORG
    • cat /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/commercial/commercial.csr
  2. Upload CSR, verify domain, receive cert bundle
  3. Copy CRT & CA Bundle files to /tmp/cert
  4. Change permissions of files to allow zimbra user to use them:
    sudo chown zimbra /tmp/cert
    sudo chown zimbra /tmp/cert/*
  5. Verify it works against private key
    zmcertmgr verifycrt comm /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/commercial/commercial.key /tmp/cert/ISSUED_CRT.crt /tmp/cert/CA_BUNDLE.ca-bundle
  6. Import new key
    zmcertmgr deploycrt comm /tmp/cert/ISSUED_CRT.crt /tmp/cert/CA_BUNDLE.ca-bundle
  7. Restart zimbra
    zmcontrol restart

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