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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/10/2020 19:13, Tech Support
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I’m trying to setup dovecot to use SSL,
but I’m getting an error message in the logs. I’m getting the
error imap-login: Fatal: Couldn't parse private ssl_key. I’m
using a commercial cert so I know that the .crt and .key files
themselves are not the problem. I have them configured like
so:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ssl_cert =
</etc/pki/tls/certs/mail_acmewidgets_net.crt<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ssl_key =
</etc/pki/tls/private/mail_acmewidgets_net.key <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The crt is mode 444 and the key is mode
400. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Since the log is not giving any other
information, I don’t know what the problem is. Any insight at
all would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Frank<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Frank</p>
<p>it might help having the full error message that was in the log
including any error code.</p>
<p>Despite your certainty of the private key file, that's where I
would suggest looking. Is your key file in PEM format? Does it
have a password?<br>
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<p>You can use this command (without posting the output) to check an
rsa kkey:</p>
<pre>openssl rsa -in /etc/pki/tls/private/mail_acmewidgets_net.key -check
You should get somethings like:
RSA key ok
writing RSA key
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
<key data is here>
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
John
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