Howto use certificates from letsencrypt.org with cyrus

Thomas Luft thomas at die-lufts.org
Fri Dec 11 15:49:32 CET 2015


Thanks everybody, I solved the problem adding the group ssl-cert to the 
required files. Now everything is running like a charm.

Kind regards

Thomas

Am 11.12.2015 um 00:01 schrieb Michael Corbit:
> 10. Dec 2015 09:45 by thomas at die-lufts.org <mailto:thomas at die-lufts.org>:
>
>     Hi everybody,
>
>     at http://letsencrypt.org one can get free and valid SSL
>     certificates. After registration of the server I have three files:
>     privkey.pem, cert.pem and chainfile.pem
>
>     When I try to use these files in /etc/imapd.conf I see that TLS can
>     not be started:
>
>     Dec 10 13:52:15 kolab imaps[19580]: unable to get certificate from
>     '/etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/cert.pem'
>
>     My imapd.conf looks like this:
>     tls_server_cert: /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/cert.pem
>     tls_server_key: /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/privkey.pem
>     tls_server_ca_file: /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/chain.pem
>
>     I tried to copy the cert.pem and chown it to cyrus, but this did not
>     help. Does cyrus need a specific format of the cert/key/chain file?
>
>     Kind regards
>
>     Thomas
>
>
> Thomas, I went round and round until I was able to get my certs all
> working correctly. I took copious notes, which true to form, I can't now
> find.  If you haven't already seen it, I believe a lot of what I did was
> based on this page. Maybe there's a clue there.
>
> https://docs.kolab.org/howtos/secure-kolab-server.html
>
> Good luck,
> digger
>
>
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