dovecot - Feb 2004 - dovecot-IMAP-SSL-StartUp

Hi everybody.
I downloaded RPM of dovecot for RH9.
& i installed it with "rpm -ivh ThatFILE.rpm"
then i ran "service dovecot start" & i receiving
following lines:

Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL
certificate /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such
file or directory
                                                      
    [FAILED]

Then i go to /usr/share/ssl/certs/ & i ran make
dovecot.pem
then i ran "service dovecot start" & i received
following lines:
Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL
key file /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: No such
file or directory
                                                      
    [FAILED]
Then i ran "cp /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
/usr/share/ssl/private/"
Then i ran "service dovecot start" & i received
following lines:
Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot):                       
    [  OK  ]
But i after it,I ran "service dovecot status"  & i
received following line:
dovecot dead but subsys locked


Please guide me......
Yours,Mohsen.


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Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen wrote:
> Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL
> certificate /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem: No such
> file or directory
>                                                       
>     [FAILED]
> 
> Then i go to /usr/share/ssl/certs/ & i ran make
> dovecot.pem
> then i ran "service dovecot start" & i received
> following lines:
> Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot): Fatal: Can't use SSL
> key file /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: No such
> file or directory
>                                                       
>     [FAILED]
> Then i ran "cp /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
> /usr/share/ssl/private/"
> Then i ran "service dovecot start" & i received
> following lines:
> Starting IMAP daemon (dovecot):                       
>     [  OK  ]
> But i after it,I ran "service dovecot status"  & i
> received following line:
> dovecot dead but subsys locked

Your private key (pem) within private cannot contain a password.

Google "openssl unlock private key" to find out how to unlock it. Then
you should be okay. Also, please check /var/log/messages and 
/var/log/maillog for further details.

-Rick

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