Adrian via Exim-users <exim-users@???> (So 04 Jul 2021 22:48:08 CEST):
> I'm setting up exim4 on a new server, to be as similar as possible to
> an existing server where exim4 works well. Both are running Debian
> buster with split config files.
>
> I'm getting the following error in the mainlog
> TLS error on connection from email-test.had.dnsops.gov [129.6.100.206]
> (cert/key setup:
> cert=/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem
> key=/etc/exim4/privkey.pem): Error while reading file.
First of all: make sure that the certificate matches the key:
Compare the modulus of they used for the cert with the modulus of the
key in your key file, do this as the Exim runtime user:
cd /
sudo -u Debian-exim openssl x509 -in /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem -noout -modulus
sudo -u Debian-exim openssl rsa -in /etc/exim4/privkey.pem -noout -modulus
> The cert file path is a symlink to the actual file
> in /etc/letsencrypt which is world-readable.
>
> The key file is /etc/exim4/privkey.pem which is a COPY of the live
> one in /etc/letsencrypt. When the key is renewed by certbot a script
> recreates the copy in /etc/exim4 and runs the following script
>
> chgrp Debian-exim /etc/exim4/privkey.pem
> setfacl -m g:Debian-exim:r /etc/exim4/privkey.pem
> # setfacl -m g:Debian-exim:x /etc/exim4 seems not needed for this dir
> systemctl restart dovecot
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Why dovecot? If, then Exim. But Exim reads the cert *on demand*, each
time for each connection, so there is no need to restart-or-reload Exim
because of a certificate change. (Of course, as long as the path doesn't
change.)
> Is there a way to increase debug verbosity? E.g. so that exim4
> confirms which file it can't read, the cert or the key file.
You can start the daemon in the forground with TLS debugging, on a
"private" port (if TLS doesn't suffice, try -d+tls, and then -d+all
instead of -d-all+tls)
exim -d-all+tls -bdf -oX 2525
and then connect using a SSL client:
openssl s_client -connect localhost:2525 -starttls smtp <<<QUIT
> ..or anything else, even brief relaxation of permissions, that might
> help identify where the problem lies.
You can do chmod a+r on the key and the cert for testing purpose, Exim
doesn't check the permissions (and the SSL libraries don't check either,
I believe)
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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