Dovecot not listening when testing connection

Alvaro Lacerda alacerda at cantella.com
Thu Apr 20 20:23:05 EEST 2017


Hi Bernardo -- Thank you so much! After I changed my input I also got an 
error when trying to test through telnet, but that was because I was 
missing the dovecot-mysql package as well. Thanks again, cheers.

Alvaro


On 04/20/2017 12:00 PM, B. Reino wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Alvaro Lacerda wrote:
>
>>  ssl = yes
>> ssl = required
>> ssl_cert = /etc/exim/ssl/wildcard_cantella_com.crt.chained
>> ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:SSLv3:!EXP:!aNULL
>> ssl_key = /etc/exim/ssl/wildcard_cantella_com.key
>> verbose_ssl = yes
>
> I guess you didn't read 
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration
>
> Change ssl_cert and ssl_key so it reads like:
> ssl_cert = </etc/exim/ssl/wildcard_cantella_com.crt.chained
> ssl_key = </etc/exim/ssl/wildcard_cantella_com.key
>
> Notice the "<" before the path.
>
> The rest (ssl, ssl_cipher_list) is OK (but check if in the end ssl is 
> "yes" or "required" and pick one).
>
> Good luck!
> Bernardo.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/20/2017 11:27 AM, B. Reino wrote:
>>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Alvaro Lacerda wrote:
>>>
>>>> These are my dovecot logs. It looks like this error pops up every 
>>>> time I run "telnet localhost 143"
>>>>
>>>> Apr 20 11:11:39 imap-login: Fatal: Couldn't parse private ssl_key: 
>>>> error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line: Expecting: 
>>>> ANY PRIVATE KEY
>>>> Apr 20 11:11:39 master: Error: service(imap-login): command startup 
>>>> failed, throttling for 60 secs
>>>
>>> OK. Can you post the output of
>>> # doveconf -n|grep ssl
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bernardo.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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Alvaro Lacerda
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