[Dovecot] Certs file

Cassidy B. Larson alandaluz at gmail.com
Mon Feb 26 20:21:11 UTC 2007


You probably need to have the: ssl_key_file option in the config file,
otherwise it'll use the default. You have the ssl_cert_file, but not
ssl_key_file.



On 2/26/07, Javier Henderson <javier at kjsl.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running 1.0rc23 on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, and seeing the following:
>
> Starting dovecot.
> Error: Can't use SSL key file /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: No such
> file or directory
>
> In the config file I have:
>
> ssl_cert_file=/usr/local/certs/imapd.pem
>
> Looking for dovecot.pem on the config file there's only:
>
> % grep dovecot.pem dovecot.conf
> #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
> #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
>
> So the two entries referencing dovecot.pem are commented out. I
> removed those two lines anyway, just in case, but it didn't make a
> difference.
>
> What am I missing? I'd love to include the output of 'dovecot -n' but...
>
> % dovecot -n
> # /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
> Error: Can't use SSL key file /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: No such
> file or directory
>
> Thanks,
>
> -jav
>
>
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