[Dovecot] dovecot-IMAP-SSL-StartUp

[Rick Johnson]

Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen wrote:

> Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL
> certificate /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such
> file or directory
>                                                       
>     [FAILED]
> 
> Then i go to /usr/share/ssl/certs/ & i ran make
> dovecot.pem
> then i ran "service dovecot start" & i received
> following lines:
> Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL
> key file /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: No such
> file or directory
>                                                       
>     [FAILED]
> Then i ran "cp /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
> /usr/share/ssl/private/"
> Then i ran "service dovecot start" & i received
> following lines:
> Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot):                       
>     [  OK  ]
> But i after it,I ran "service dovecot status"  & i
> received following line:
> dovecot dead but subsys locked


Your private key (pem) within private cannot contain a password.

Google "openssl unlock private key" to find out how to unlock it. Then 
you should be okay. Also, please check /var/log/messages and 
/var/log/maillog for further details.

-Rick

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