Dovecot proxy ignores trusted root certificate store

[Edgar Pettijohn]

On 09/21/2015 05:11 PM, Alex Bulan wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
>
>> doveconf -n?
>
> doveconf -n|grep ssl should suffice:
>
> ssl = required

shouldn't it be:

ssl = yes

I was only aware of the choice of yes or no here, but I could be wrong.
> ssl_ca = </usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt
> ssl_cert = </path/to/my/file.pem
> ssl_key = </path/to/my/file.pem
> ssl_require_crl = no
>
> I'm using "ssl_ca = </usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt" as a 
> temporary workaround, even though this is not what ssl_ca is for.  It 
> happens to work, at least for now, but this is not a fix.
>
> ssl_client_ca_file should be used instead, but it has no effect in 
> proxy mode:
>
> ssl_client_ca_file = /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt
>
> This doesn't work either (and the Dovecot Wiki shows it used without 
> "<"):
>
> ssl_client_ca_file = </usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt
>
> And "ssl_require_crl = no" to silence "unable to get certificate CRL" 
> log messages.  I don't need it to check CRLs on the backend's 
> certificate chain.