Thunderbird can't connect to Dovecot (bad certificate: SSL alert number 42) - sni

Tue Oct 11 11:47:13 UTC 2022

Good morning to all

i guess things have changed yet again

to keep this simple :

i buy a certificate (example) : mail.paulkudla.net

i generated the key / csr as per normal using

data = '/usr/local/bin/openssl req -new -key /tmp/temp.key -out 
/tmp/temp.csr -subj "/C=%s/ST=%s/L=%s/O=%s/CN=%s"' 
%(country,state,location,organization,self.domain)

please note the above is done in django

(yes i am running thunderbird v102)

i go buy the certificate

i database the CRT & CA

CSR is :

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
MIICpzCCAY8CAQAwYjELMAkGA1UEBhMCQ0ExEDAOBgNVBAgMB09udGFyaW8xDzAN
BgNVBAcMBldoaXRieTETMBEGA1UECgwKUGF1bCBLdWRsYTEbMBkGA1UEAwwSbWFp
bC5wYXVsa3VkbGEubmV0MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA
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lLE8++Hqvt3cmZZ+wxWP/hy6LcS/6PvUPgN7S+cEC5TNLQ6VRZdpSGolRCrN9hsN
15GWYEQ/zcLW2PeCWav9DOr6NHBRE+fruDy3jFT0TkHWf3H+GKB0/RZ0agMJcEGc
ZLdJ1LkvNAn6gslppm3otZyu7XTvY9qZXcYOlMN0KL3a3488OwXTwWJHEN58eCMc
juax1f7ad8Z/+Pi+OFwfWQIDAQABoAAwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQADggEBAFgL24yi
WPat73tg1fANvutWXa2WEXeegqOawqvsV74lcyqMes8yhxiz/niOAt3oOLmViRF4
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iz1/QClBPbKvfufNb+asTQSCDeJFc2EynDSE1yeYzliMLo+77ZoMqJPvI9IJCuj5
yq88NESoIYaO6Do=
-----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

CRT is :

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIGRTCCBS2gAwIBAgIRAKTmHoDG9LF3heBvAT8gZkYwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQAw
gY8xCzAJBgNVBAYTAkdCMRswGQYDVQQIExJHcmVhdGVyIE1hbmNoZXN0ZXIxEDAO
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AQYIKwYBBQUHAwIwSQYDVR0gBEIwQDA0BgsrBgEEAbIxAQICBzAlMCMGCCsGAQUF
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----

CA (INTER) :

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIGEzCCA/ugAwIBAgIQfVtRJrR2uhHbdBYLvFMNpzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQwFADCB
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----

sni.conf :

local_name mail.paulkudla.net {
   ssl_key = /programs/common/getssl.cert -c mail.paulkudla.net -q yes
   ssl_cert = /programs/common/getssl.cert -c mail.paulkudla.net -q yes
   ssl_ca = /programs/common/getssl.cert -c mail.paulkudla.net -q yes
}

please note getssl.cert above is a program that returns the keys from 
the database - worked perfectly fine before.

basically what do i have to add to what file (csr, cert, ca) to get the 
sni to work again

for mail.paulkudla.net

so based on the mail lists

So in you example a valid .csr now contains:
CN = example.com
SAN.1 = example.com
SAN.2 = www.example.com
etc.

Of course you could also have:

CN = www.example.com
SAN.1 = www.example.com
SAN.2 = example.com

what do i modify (and how) ????

the above says to modify the csr ?

please keep in mind that the cert purchased is only for the name : 
mail.paulkudla.net

thus i fail to see why it is throwing error 42, however this seems to be 
a patch to thunderbird as well

i did not have to change the servers base ssl stuff (*.scom.ca) so that 
is still working or will that need to be updated as well eventually

postfix is perfectly fine ?????

Note from sni.conf (ssl config file) - aka *.scom.ca is ok ?? :

ssl = yes
verbose_ssl = yes
ssl_dh =</usr/local/etc/dovecot/dh-4096.pem
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes
#ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.2

#Default *.scom.ca
ssl_key =</usr/local/etc/dovecot/scom.pem
ssl_cert =</usr/local/etc/dovecot/scom.pem
ssl_ca =</usr/local/etc/dovecot/scom.pem

-- 

Happy Tuesday !!!
Thanks - paul

Paul Kudla

Scom.ca Internet Services <http://www.scom.ca>
004-1009 Byron Street South
Whitby, Ontario - Canada
L1N 4S3

Toronto 416.642.7266
Main 1.866.411.7266
Fax 1.888.892.7266
Email paul at scom.ca