Server certificate verification error with Dovecot 2.3.2.1

Robert Gill locke at sdf.lonestar.org
Thu Sep 13 22:46:12 EEST 2018


On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 05:59:16AM +0300, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> You are supposed to put the intermediates into the cert file after the
> cert in order from cert to root. ssl_ca is not used for this.
> ---Aki TuomiDovecot oy

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:43:23PM -0700, Joseph Tam wrote:
> Try creating your certificate by appending all your server and
> intermediate certs in this order into one file
> 
>       server certificate
>       intermediate certificate 1
>       intermediate certificate 2
>       ...
> 
> where the chain works toward the root CA.  You don't need the root CA
> as your client ought to anchor the chain with its own CA store.  Then
> set the value of ssl_cert to this file.
> 
> Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>

Thanks, I concatenated the CA bundle onto my cert file and everything
seems to work now.


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