Installing postfix + dovecot

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I am following this tutorial to install a complete mail server on my private server:
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/email-with-postfix-dovecot-and-mariadb-on-centos-7/

I am at the point I need to generate certificates with sudo certbot --nginx.
Since I have already installed and configured my website using caddy, I was wondering

  • MUST/SHOULD I use certificates generated by caddy for my email server? Is it mandatory?
  • If so, Postfix is waiting for pem files (fullchain.pem and privkey.pem ), while caddy is generating (as far as I understood) a cert file and a key file. Any hint for the transformation? Can I use the steps in https://gist.github.com/gordonmurray/433e455653983adc67df6754e4e9b3f5 ?
  • And as far as I understood the certificates get renewed regularly. How can I know when it occured?

Sorry if the questions looks stupid or dumb. I am completely new to this kind of problematic, and I never setup a mail server neither a web server.

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