> On 27/03/2023 16:42 EEST Jesper Dybdal <jd-dove...@dybdal.dk> wrote: > > > I have just upgraded my Debian Buster (Dovecot 2.3.4, I think it was) to > Bullseye (Dovecot 2.3.13). > > The Dovecot server works fine, which of course is the really important > thing. > > But I have a cron job that cleans up all old mail from the mailbox that > I use for my mobile phone by running "doveadm expunge" every night. > > That worked fine in 2.3.4, but now it fails: > > jdmobile@nuser:~$ doveadm expunge mailbox '*' before 25d > > doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file > > /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 23: ssl_cert: Can't open file > > /etc/letsencrypt/live/nuser.dybdal.dk/fullchain.pem: Permission denied > > Of course, doveadm cannot access the TLS key when running as a normal > user. But why should it try to access that key at all when I have just > asked it to clean up my own files in my own Maildir? Is there a way to > make it not try to access that key and do its job anyway? Or another > way to delete old mail? > > (I could give it a "-u jdmobile" option and run it as root - but I > really like to run things like that as a non-privileged user, so I won't > make a stupid mistake that destroys the wrong mailbox.) > > Thanks, > Jesper > > -- > Jesper Dybdal > https://www.dybdal.dk
Hi! This is a known issue, to work around it, use ssl=no !include_try conf.d/ssl.conf and put ssl=yes in ssl.conf along with your cert & key. then chmod it 0600. This is also fixed in 2.3.20. Aki