[Dovecot] authenticating with LDAP and SSL

[Stian Jordet]

søn, 18.03.2007 kl. 13.26 -0700, skrev Nathan Fiedler:
> I managed to configure Dovecot to use a local OpenLDAP server to 
> authenticate clients, without using SSL. However, I would rather that 
> LDAP is accessed using SSL, but I cannot get Dovecot to connect. All 
> that I did was change "uris" to "ldaps://localhost", and this appears in 
> the maillog:
> 
> Mar 18 12:53:00 server dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up
> Mar 18 12:53:01 server dovecot: auth(default): ldap_bind((null)) failed: 
> Can't contact LDAP server
> 
> Is there additional configuration that is needed for SSL?
> 
> Note that I altered the slapd.conf file from not requiring SSL to 
> requiring SSL when I changed the "uris" parameter. And, of course, 
> accessing the directory using ldapsearch works just fine. It seems that 
> there's only a problem when using SSL, but I don't know how to debug it.

I have been using ldaps with dovecot since 0.99.x, and now with rc27
without problems. But I have never used auth_bind (yet, it's on my
todo).

-Stian