[Dovecot] SSL setup ?

Marius Stan mstan at asesoft.ro
Mon Oct 4 10:59:33 EEST 2004


Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 1.10.2004, at 18:25, Marius Stan wrote:
>
>>> --ssl, not -ssl
>>
>>
>> damn. I'm tired... anyway, I swear I've RTFM but I didn'n find this 
>> switch.
>
>
> Well, preferred way to start Dovecot is to run it via dovecot master 
> binary, not via inetd. I should write some page about it to wiki I 
> guess..

>> What's tho switch for debug ? now I've got this:
>> pop3-login: Oct 01 16:49:56 Fatal: SSL initialization failed
>> and some more verbosity would prevent me from bothering you again
>
>
> The error messages are usually quite good I think. This is one 
> exception, I'll fix it. Anyway, two possibilities:
>
> a) Dovecot wasn't compiled with SSL support at all.

Install prefix ...................... : /usr
File offsets ........................ : 64bit
Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL)
Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes
Building with pop3 server ........... : yes
Building with user database modules . : static passwd passwd-file ldap 
pgsql mysql (modules)
Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam 
ldap pgsql mysql (modules)

>
> b) ssl_disable = yes

it's not disabled...

Marius



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