[Dovecot] How to configure ssl cert chain in dovecot 10-ssl.conf file

Bu Xiaobing bushurui at gmail.com
Tue May 21 04:39:11 EEST 2013


Gedalya,

Thanks for your reply, it works now, and finally I find it was the format problem, there should been a return between there cert files when cat into one single file.

On 2013-5-18 17:48, Gedalya wrote:
> On 05/18/2013 05:06 AM, Bu Xiaobing wrote:
>> I even cat mail.mymailserver.com.crt sub.class1.server.ca.pem certs/dovecot/ca.pem into one singe file, and define ssl_cert = < /path/to/the/singcertfile.pem, but it doesn't work too.
> That should be the correct way, but I think there shouldn't be a space
> after the < character.
> What exactly is the error you are getting?
> 
> You can troubleshoot with openssl s_client, this is from my server:
> 
> $ openssl s_client -connect 192.168.xxx.xxx:143 -starttls imap -CApath
> /etc/ssl/certs
> CONNECTED(00000003)
> depth=2 C = IL, O = StartCom Ltd., OU = Secure Digital Certificate
> Signing, CN = StartCom Certification Authority
> verify return:1
> depth=1 C = IL, O = StartCom Ltd., OU = Secure Digital Certificate
> Signing, CN = StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Server CA
> verify return:1
> depth=0 description = 7t3YlXVfb6bVQ2pp, C = US, CN = mail.gedalya.net,
> emailAddress = ______ at gedalya.net
> verify return:1
> ---
> Certificate chain
> 0
> s:/description=7t3YlXVfb6bVQ2pp/C=US/CN=mail.gedalya.net/emailAddress=postmaster at gedalya.net
> i:/C=IL/O=StartCom Ltd./OU=Secure Digital Certificate
> Signing/CN=StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Server CA
> 1 s:/C=IL/O=StartCom Ltd./OU=Secure Digital Certificate
> Signing/CN=StartCom Class 1 Primary Intermediate Server CA
> i:/C=IL/O=StartCom Ltd./OU=Secure Digital Certificate
> Signing/CN=StartCom Certification Authority
> 2 s:/C=IL/O=StartCom Ltd./OU=Secure Digital Certificate
> Signing/CN=StartCom Certification Authority
> i:/C=IL/O=StartCom Ltd./OU=Secure Digital Certificate
> Signing/CN=StartCom Certification Authority
> ---
> 


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