10-ssl ssl = no but dovecot still reads certs

Sami Ketola sami.ketola at dovecot.fi
Sat Jul 22 19:10:15 EEST 2017


Hi,

Can you please post your doveconf -n output.

Sami

> On 16 Jun 2017, at 11.29, lists at lazygranch.com wrote:
> 
> I'm bringing up a new email server starting without TLS initially. In
> 10-ssl.conf I set ssl = no, but the default ssl_cert and ssl_key
> lines are not commented out. I got the obvious error message:
> ------------------------------
> doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration
> file /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 12: ssl_cert: Can't
> open file /etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such file or
> directory /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot: WARNING: failed to start dovecot
> --------------------------
> 
> No big deal, but I don't remember this being an issue the last time I
> set up a server. You would think if ssl=no, the ssl_cert and ssl_key
> files would not be opened.



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