Re: [exim] DKIM Certificate Issues

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Author: Jeremy Harris
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] DKIM Certificate Issues
On 16/02/2020 16:11, Neal Blount via Exim-users wrote:
> I have configured Exim 4.92 to sign out going emails with a DKIM certificate


DKIM signature. No certificates here.

> but I always get errors:
>
> 2020-02-16 03:45:10 1j3FY3-0005tu-Vh signing_init: privkey PEM-block import: error:0909006C:PEM routines:get_name:no start line
> 2020-02-16 03:45:10 1j3FY3-0005tu-Vh DKIM: signing failed: PRIVKEY
>
> This seems to indicate an issue with the format of the private key but it was generated with openssl following the instructions in the Exim documentation. I have made sure that Exim has ownership of the files and read access.


The private key file should be a full .pem, so starting
with a line like
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

You might have been confused by the description of stripping
the PEM wrap, leaving only the base-64, for the public key
which you need to advertise in DNS?
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Cheers,
Jeremy