[exim] TLS: Base64 decoding error

I am having trouble setting up a commercial security certificate under Debian
testing, using Exim 4.63. Exim is reporting a Base64 decoding error.

The keys and certificates are working for other applications on the server. I
presume the difficulties I am having stem from Debian's use of GnuTLS.

The decoding error is similar to the one reported here:
http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403072

The issue is that "PEM format keys/certificates are base64 encoded" (James
Westby). The issue was worked around by decoding the key from PKCS#8 to RSA
format (Felix Palmen).

However in my case what is problematic is that the original key is already in
RSA format.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Regards
Rory

2007-05-13 22:02:17 TLS error on connection from myhost.net [217.147.xx.xx] 
    (cert/key set up: cert=/etc/exim4/certificates/newserver_co_uk.crt 
     key=/etc/exim4/certificates/newserver_co_uk.pem) : Base64 decoding error.

MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = yes
MAIN_TLS_PRIVATEKEY = /etc/exim4/certificates/newserver_co_uk.pem
MAIN_TLS_CERTIFICATE = /etc/exim4/certificates/newserver_co_uk.crt



--
Rory Campbell-Lange
<rory@???>
<www.campbell-lange.net>