On 17/10/2020 19:13, Tech Support wrote: > > All; > > 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: > > > > ssl_cert = </etc/pki/tls/certs/mail_acmewidgets_net.crt > > ssl_key = </etc/pki/tls/private/mail_acmewidgets_net.key > > > > The crt is mode 444 and the key is mode 400. > > > > 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. > > Thanks; > > Frank > Frank
it might help having the full error message that was in the log including any error code. 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? You can use this command (without posting the output) to check an rsa kkey: 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
