Dovecot SSL Configuration has changed

[David Kirchner]

Page: https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/dovecot-server.html
Dovecot SSL Configuration describes editing /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf for SSL.

To configure dovecot to use SSL, you can edit the file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and amend following lines:

ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
ssl_disable = no
disable_plaintext_auth = no

SSL is now in the file is now /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf
dovecot-core 1:2.0.19-Oubun is the version installed on Server 12.04.1 LTS and this web document does not match.

Sorry, I have not figured the work around.

[Ian Nicholson (imnichol)]

Upstream documentation located at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration

[Ian Nicholson (imnichol)]

Upstream documentation located at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration

It looks like ssl_cert and ssl_key are used now instead of ssl_cert_file and ssl_key_file. This is fixed in the docs for 14.04, so I'll confirm what is correct for 12.04 and 10.04, as all other versions have EOL'd.

[Doug Smythies (dsmythies)]

Ian,

for certain we will not publish updates for 10.04.
It is unlikely, but maybe, for 12.04.

Why? Because there is too much work and not enough contributors.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Per the recent comments, this appears to have long since been fixed, and the focal versions of the docs look good.