Problem with Let's Encrypt Certificate

Christian Kivalo
Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:48:27 -0000

On 2017-02-17 22:38, chaouche yacine wrote:
> Seems wrong to me too, Robert. If you put your private key inside your
> certificate, won't it be sent to the client along with it ?
This is one way of supplying cert + key to a daemon and no, the key is
not sent to the client.

While it is normaly true that one doesn't want the key to have access
rights other than 0600, with dovecot as the file owner of the
key+cert+intermediate .pem file the access rights can be set to 0600.

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  Christian Kivalo