Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20220609205550.kbvci%stef...@sdaoden.eu>:
 ...
 |.. But .. in fact postfix's TLS configuration regarding CAfile
 |made me appear so foolish i kept
 |
 |  # That one is for client certificates!
 |  #smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/dovecot/cert.pem
 |
 |in my configuration.  I cannot tell no more what i expected.
 |I think it would be that _CAfile points to the usual crypto lib
 |(or .. you know) delivered CA-certificates aka trusted CAs, and that client
 |certificates are treated specially.  (Like the former via, hm,
 |SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(), but then making a difference for
 |permit_tls_clientcerts.  I really had to look very deeply now for
 |whether this is realizable like that.)

Of course i never had the coolness to use a self-signed
certificate on the server.  Which explains that a bit.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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