Well after a great deal of work I finally got it work. It seems that the problem is with dovecot configuration and openssl. I got to poking around and found that I had both an rpm for openssl and had installed it in /usr/local/ssl manually as well. The two were different versions. I took the manual out of the equation and set dovecot to point to the rpm version. Next I did:
find / -name dovecot
and removed all of the directories that dovecot had made. I reinstalled dovecot and redid the certificates and everything seems to work. Now what I dont know is if it is the 0.9.8a version of openssl that was a problem or if it was having both on and maybe certificates were created with one and I was trying to test with the other. The version of openssl that seems to be working correctly is 0.9.7a. I suspect that is having both versions of openssl that was a problem.
Quoting "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 10:32:18 AM -0400, Darryl Cook
>
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>> I am having
problems getting Dovecot and SSL to work correctly.
>> I feel like I
am really close but just cant quite get there.
>> Im running the
following:
>>
>> Redhat Linux Enterprise Edition version
4 update 3
>> openssl version 0.9.8a
>> Dovecot version
1.0.beta7
>>
>> I have created the certificates
>
> Darryl,
>
> I have a box with the exact same
configuration as yours and am getting
> *mad* to create working
certificates (see recent thread on openssl
> list titled "what's
wrong with this openssl.conf") on it.
>
> May I ask you to
share, even off list, the exact procedure you
> followed, minus, of
course, any security critical information? Which
> parameters you set
in which file, which scripts you ran with which
> options, whatever...
I would be reeeally grateful, I am really getting
> lost on this
issue...
>
> Thank you in advance for any feedback,
>
> Marco
>
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>
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>
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