dovecot-2.3 (-git) Warning and Fatal Compile Error

Reuben Farrelly
2017-10-29T11:55:13Z

Hi again,

Chasing down one last problem which seems to have been missed from my
last email:

On 20/10/2017 9:22 PM, Stephan Bosch wrote:
>
>
> Op 20-10-2017 om 4:23 schreef Reuben Farrelly:
>> On 18/10/2017 11:40 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>> On 18 Oct 2017, at 6.34, Reuben Farrelly <reuben-dovecot at
reub.net>
>>> wrote:

This problem below is still present in 2.3 -git, as of version 2.3.devel
(6fc40674e)

>>> Secondly, this ssl_dh messages is always printed from doveconf:
>>>
>>> doveconf: Warning: please set ssl_dh=</etc/dovecot/dh.pem
>>> doveconf: Warning: You can generate it with: dd
>>> if=/var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat bs=1 skip=88 | openssl dh
>>> -inform der > /etc/dovecot/dh.pem
>>>
>>> Yet the file is there:
>>>
>>> thunderstorm conf.d # ls -la /etc/dovecot/dh.pem
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 769 Oct 19 21:55 /etc/dovecot/dh.pem
>>>
>>> And the config is there as well:
>>>
>>> thunderstorm dovecot # doveconf -P | grep ssl_dh
>>> ssl_dh = </etc/dovecot/dh.pem
>>> doveconf: Warning: please set ssl_dh=</etc/dovecot/dh.pem
>>> doveconf: Warning: You can generate it with: dd
>>> if=/var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat bs=1 skip=88 | openssl dh
>>> -inform der > /etc/dovecot/dh.pem
>>> ? ssl_dh = -----BEGIN DH PARAMETERS-----
>>> ? ssl_dh = -----BEGIN DH PARAMETERS-----
>>> ? ssl_dh = -----BEGIN DH PARAMETERS-----
>>> ? ssl_dh = -----BEGIN DH PARAMETERS-----
>>> ? ssl_dh = -----BEGIN DH PARAMETERS-----
>>> ? ssl_dh = -----BEGIN DH PARAMETERS-----
>>> ? ssl_dh = -----BEGIN DH PARAMETERS-----
>>> ? ssl_dh = -----BEGIN DH PARAMETERS-----
>>> thunderstorm dovecot #
>>>
>>> It appears that this warning is being triggered by the presence of
>>> the ssl-parameters.dat file because when I remove it the warning
>>> goes away. Perhaps the warning could be made a bit more specific
>>> about this file being removed if it is not required because at the
>>> moment the warning message is not related to the trigger.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Reuben
>

Thanks,
Reuben