[Techtalk] tls and mail server

Elwing elwing at elwing.org
Wed Oct 28 21:48:27 UTC 2009


I don't think I changed anything in the logging - I'm looking in /var/ 
log/debug (on FreeBSD 6.2) for most of my information, although Cyrus  
logs to /var/log/auth.log and /var/log/messages as well, so you have  
to look in all three places.

Laura


On Oct 27, 2009, at 7:57 PM, Maria McKinley wrote:

> I have another question for you. You seem to have a lot more stuff  
> getting logged then I do. What is the secret? I put  
> CYRUS_VERBOSE=30, but that doesn't seem to increase anything really.
>
> ~maria
>
> Elwing wrote:
>> What version of cyrus are you using?  There is a bug before 2.3.20  
>> (I think) that won't accept the cert configuration unless you have  
>> a CA (most people don't).  It's been fixed in newer versions, and  
>> if not, I have a patch at http://weblog.elwing.org/elwing/index.php/2007/07/18/cyrus-imap-and-certificates/ 
>>  (and more details about the problem).
>> I've also seen this error when the key doesn't match the cert, and  
>> a few other things related to the certificates.. it's really hit or  
>> miss with the *excellent* error messages that cyrus gives you.
>> Elwing
>> On Oct 27, 2009, at 6:59 PM, Maria McKinley wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I am running cyrus/tls/ldap. The imaps connection is not working,  
>>> but the imap and smtp connections are:
>>>
>>> ella:/var/log# testsaslauthd -u "test" -p "xxx" -s smtp
>>> 0: OK "Success."
>>> ella:/var/log# testsaslauthd -u "test" -p "xxx" -s imaps
>>> 0: NO "authentication failed"
>>> ella:/var/log# testsaslauthd -u "test" -p "xxx" -s imap
>>> 0: OK "Success."
>>>
>>> I can't figure out why this would be. Weirdly, I can connect and  
>>> check my mail on 993, but trying to access sieve gives errors and  
>>> times out, and there are lots of these errors in the logs:
>>>
>>> cyrus/imaps[18287]: Fatal error: tls_start_servertls() failed
>>>
>>> Anybody have an idea where to check? In the meantime, I continue  
>>> to google and check config files...
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> maria
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