Why is my mail certificate for POP IMAP rejected?

I am running 10.6 server with the latest updates and suddenly I noticed that my mail account stopped working. When I investigated the issue it looks like that my SSL certificate in the server admin under mail -> security is gone. there are two fields for enabling SSL, one for SMTP-SSL where my certificate still shows up and is working just fine and the other one for IMAP and POP SSL shows 'no certificate'.
When I try to chose my certificate from the pulldown menu and click save, it takes a couple of seconds to save the status and then jump back to showing 'no certificate'.
when disabling ssl the mail server works as intended. changing or adding certificates with the certadmin also failed. maybe someone else has an idea on how to get the server-admin to use a certificate for the imap-pop-ssl again.
thanks.

after googling around for quite some time was about to give up but then i stumbled onto some threads with the same problem.
one suggested to reinstall and set the server up clean from the beginning again, which wasnt really an option but there was one comment to it that helped me to find the solution. the person suggested to point the dovecot.conf file (located at /etc/dovecot/) to the /etc/certificates folder again. that was not quite the solution for me, but maybe it helps someone else.
what did the trick for me was actually to manually solve a bug from server-admin in the dovecot.conf file at /etc/dovecot. be sure to make a backup of the file first before you do any editing. if you change something in server-admin with your mail server and certificates, the server admin tends to append things to the dovecot.conf rather than replace the old text in there. so what you end up with is a long and messed up dovecot.conf file. in the dovecot.conf file is a section for ssl_ca_file, ssl_key_file and ssl_cert_file where only one term should stand, rather than multiple things. by deleting the unnecessary additions created by server-admin, or deleting everything the equal sign (after ssl_ca_file =) and then pointing the server-admin to the right certificate again, you may get rid of this bug.
this is the thread that helped me find this out: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2291114?threadID=2291114
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