Dovecot and IMAPS

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 27 16:37:36 UTC 2008


I am trying to set up a new system with IMAPS - IMAP over SSL as I
understand it.  So far, it works perfectly - I log in on port 993 and it
works just fine - with the default certificate, which is unsigned.

I bought a certificate through U of T (this new system is at U of T),
and I received a block of text and a .bundle file.  Those, along with
the key that I used to create the certificate request, gives me three
things I think I need.

The problem is, when I point dovecot at the key and the crt file
(containing the block of text) I get an error in the dovecot log:

dovecot: 2008-02-27 10:38:38 Error: imap-login: Can't load private key
file /etc/ssl/private/$mydomain.key: error:0B080074:x509
certificate routines:X509_check_private_key:key values mismatch

I've done some poking around, and sometimes this is caused by trailing
spaces in the file, but that hasn't happened here.  Something I notice
is that the default, unsigned key pair has the extension .pem, rather
than .crt or .key.  Unfortunately, I'm out of my depth on this one, and
help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
-- 

yours,

William

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