First steps in Dovecot; IMAP not working

[Aki Tuomi]

doveconf -n shows what's there. if you have ssl=no somewhere else in the
config after you set it to required, it gets overwritten.

Aki


On 13.10.2016 12:18, Marnaud wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I'm new in Dovecot and am having troubles making it working. I'm
> trying using Outlook and Apple's Mail as the mail clients. Outlook
> says it can't establish a secured connection to the server (for the
> IMAP protocol). I'm guessing sending e-mails works but I can't check.
>
>
>
> This is my current configuration (using dovecot -n):
>
>
>
> # 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-042stab116.1 x86_64 Debian 8.6
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> namespace inbox {
>   inbox = yes
>   location =
>   mailbox Drafts {
>     special_use = \Drafts
>   }
>   mailbox Junk {
>     special_use = \Junk
>   }
>   mailbox Sent {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox Trash {
>     special_use = \Trash
>   }
>   prefix =
> }
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }
> protocols = " imap"
> service auth {
>   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>     group = postfix
>     mode = 0666
>     user = postfix
>   }
> }
> service imap-login {
>   inet_listener imaps {
>     port = 993
>     ssl = yes
>   }
> }
> ssl = no
> ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mail.crt
> ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail.key
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }
>
>
>
> I find abnormal I'm seeing "ssl = no" in this configuration despite
> the fact that I have "ssl = required" in the
> /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf file, but I'm new to this...
>
> I have looked around the web; finally, I'm asking here, hoping it's
> the correct place to ask.
>
>
>
> Arnaud