10-ssl.conf: Unknown setting: ssl / debian 1:2.2.13-12~deb8u

[Aki Tuomi]

Can you provide output of

dovecot --build-options

Aki

On 04.06.2017 12:10, Sophie Loewenthal wrote:
> Hi Stefan, 
>
> My apologies for the long delay.  Been ill. 
>
> I tried this and had an error,
>
>
> # mv /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf.bak
> # cp -p  /usr/share/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf /etc/dovecot/conf.d/
> # /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
>
> /var/log/daemon.log
> Jun  4 11:05:55 mail systemd[1]: Starting Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server...
> Jun  4 11:05:55 mail systemd[1]: Started Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server.
> Jun  4 11:05:55 mail dovecot[969]: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 6: Unknown setting: ssl
> Jun  4 11:05:55 mail dovecot[969]: doveconf: Error: managesieve-login: dump-capability process returned 89
> Jun  4 11:05:55 mail dovecot[969]: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 6: Unknown setting: ssl
> Jun  4 11:05:55 mail systemd[1]: dovecot.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=89/n/a
> Jun  4 11:05:55 mail systemd[1]: Unit dovecot.service entered failed state.
>
>
>> On 18 May 2017, at 23:40, S. Kremer <sk71 at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sophie
>>
>> did you try the following steps?
>>
>> 1. rename /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf to
>> /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf.bak
>> 2. copy /usr/share/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf to /etc/dovecot/conf.d/
>> 3. restart dovecot
>>
>> what happens? start dovecot normally?
>>
>> if so
>>
>> make a new cert with /usr/share/dovecot/mkcert.sh
>>
>> and do changes in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf
>>
>> ssl = yes
>> ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
>> ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
>>
>> then restart dovecot. What happens now?
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Stefan
>>
>>
>> Am 18.05.2017 um 22:01 schrieb Sophie Loewenthal:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> I've been trying to get dovecot2 running and kept having this error message:
>>>
>>> May 13 13:38:32 mail systemd[1]: Started Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server.
>>> May 13 13:38:32 mail dovecot[2178]: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 61: Unknown setting: ssl
>>>
>>>
>>> # dovecot --build-options
>>> Build options: ioloop=epoll notify=inotify ipv6 openssl io_block_size=8192
>>> Mail storages: shared mdbox sdbox maildir mbox cydir imapc pop3c raw fail
>>> SQL driver plugins: mysql postgresql sqlite
>>> Passdb: checkpassword ldap pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql
>>> Userdb: checkpassword ldap(plugin) nss passwd prefetch passwd-file sql
>>>
>>> # openssl version
>>> OpenSSL 1.0.1t  3 May 2016
>>>
>>> This package is from from Debian repos with version number 1:2.2.13-12~deb8u amd64
>>>
>>> In case I had inadvertently entered some invisible charaters in 10-ssl.conf, I deleted and typed this out. Not copy-pasted: 
>>> # >10-ssl.conf
>>> # cat 10-ssl.conf
>>> # echo 'ssl = required' >10-ssl.conf
>>> # echo 'ssl_key  = </etc/ssl/private/xxx.key' >>10-ssl.conf
>>> # echo 'ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/xxx.pem' >>10-ssl.conf
>>>
>>> I’ve done usual searching online for a week and read some dox, but cannot see what I’ve missed out. 
>>> Any ideas? Please?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sophie 
>>>