Re: courier-imap fails

From	tony@vanderhoff.org
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: courier-imap fails
Date	2016-11-15 19:20 +0100
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> Tony, Di 15 Nov 2016 18:01:40 CET:
>
>> The only clue is in /var/log/mail.info:
>> imapd-ssl: couriertls: accept: error:14094417:SSL
>> routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert illegal parameter
>>
>> It turns out that this was reported in bug #787579, which I think should
>> have been resolved by now. Googling suggests a work-around: DH_BITS=2048
>> mkdhparams, but this seems to have little effect. I'm not sure what
>> format
>> a PEM file should take, but my dhparams.pem is only 201 bytes, which
>> seems
>> a bit small.
>
> Have you checked that the mkdhparams script really did create a new
> dhparams.pem? Looking at the man page of mkdhparams indicates that it
> does nothing if dhparams.pem exists and is less than 25 days old.
>

Thank you, Markus; that was indeed the problem. Well spotted!

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courier-imap fails tony@vanderhoff.org - 2016-11-15 18:10 +0100
  Re: courier-imap fails Markus Schönhaber <debian-user@list-post.mks-mail.de> - 2016-11-15 19:00 +0100
    Re: courier-imap fails tony@vanderhoff.org - 2016-11-15 19:20 +0100

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