This directory is supposed to have 3 keys which are copied to various places to mailserver. - ca.crt Certification authority public keys (or "intermediate certificate"). There is "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" once or more times. - server.crt Your public key generated by your CA. It should have one "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" in it - server.key Your private key, it should have "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----" in it There is also - dh1024.pem Its generated Diffie-Hellman paramaters. File is generated once at first container startup - there is no need to manipulate with that file even if you changing all certs.