Dovecot and IMAPS

[Julian C. Dunn]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:

> 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.

Are both files in fact in PEM format?

- Julian

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