[Dovecot] dovecot-IMAP-SSL-StartUp
Hi everybody. I downloaded RPM of dovecot for RH9. & i installed it with "rpm -ivh ThatFILE.rpm" then i ran "service dovecot start" & i receiving following lines:
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
Please guide me...... Yours,Mohsen.
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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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Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen
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Rick Johnson