[Techtalk] tls and mail server

Maria McKinley maria at shadlen.org
Tue Oct 27 23:57:54 UTC 2009


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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