dovecot problem with ssl

[Christian Kivalo]

On 2017-03-18 07:19, Nilton Jose Rizzo wrote:
> Em Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:35:40 -0300, Nilton Jose Rizzo escreveu
>> Em Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:06:08 -0700, Doug Barton escreveu
>> > On 03/17/2017 01:21 AM, Nilton Jose Rizzo wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >   Hi all,
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >      I already searched for this error on google and nothing
>> > >
>> > >      I never install dovecot, this is a first time.
>> > >
>> > >      This error, I know, is too newbie and stupid, but I
>> > > checked more than twice.
>> > >
>> > > root at server:/usr/local/etc/dovecot # sievec /home3/virtual/default.sieve
>> > > doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file
>> > > /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 7: Unknown setting: ssl
>> > > root at server:/usr/local/etc/dovecot #
>> > >
>> > >     I'm running a FreeBSD 12-current
>> >
>> > As someone else pointed out, that 7: means the error is on line 7 of
>> > the file.
>> >
>> > Go into dovecot's conf.d folder (in /usr/local/etc/) and do this:
>> >
>> > diff -u 10-ssl.conf.sample 10-ssl.conf
>> >
>> > If that doesn't clearly indicate the problem to you, post the
>> > results to the list.
>> >
>> > hope this helps,
>> >
>> > Doug
>> 
>>   Sorry,  I'm forget the link to tutorial
>> 
>>  http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=7
>> 
>> root at server:/usr/local/etc/dovecot # head  10 conf.d/10-ssl.conf
>> head: 10: No such file or directory
>> ==> conf.d/10-ssl.conf <==
>> ##
>> ## SSL settings
>> ##
>> 
>> # SSL/TLS support: yes, no, required. <doc/wiki/SSL.txt>
>> #ssl = yes
>> ssl=yes
>> 
>> # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're 
>> opened before
>> # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone 
>> but
>> root at server:/usr/local/etc/dovecot #
Please post the output of doveconf -n

ssl = yes (or ssl=yes) is correct so should work. We need to know more 
about your running dovecot configuration.

Btw: is dovecot running? Can you log in? From localhost and/or from a 
remote host? Over a secure connection?

-- 
  Christian Kivalo