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We are trying to get a dragonfly mta (dma) client to use STARTTLS with our mailhub. We created a self-signed certificate and key using openssl

openssl req -new -newkey rsa:4096 -x509 -sha256 -set_serial 201912200501 -days 3650 -nodes -out x.crt -keyout x.key

and concatenated these into a pem file:

cat x.crt x.key > /usr/local/etc/pki/tls/private/x.pem ; chmod 600 /usr/local/etc/pki/tls/private/x.pem

In /etc/dma.conf we have this:

SECURETRANSFER
STARTTLS
CERTFILE = /usr/local/etc/pki/tls/private/x.pem

When we try to send to the mail hub dma reports this in /var/log/maillog:

Dec 20 16:15:54 gway05 dma[2813d.8018280f0]: trying remote delivery to smtp.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [216.185.71.31] pref 0
Dec 20 16:15:54 gway05 dma[2813d.8018280f0]: SSL: Cannot load certificate `= /usr/local/etc/pki/tls/private/x.pem': error:140DC002:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file:system lib
Dec 20 16:15:54 gway05 dma[2813d.8018280f0]: remote delivery deferred

What are we doing wrong?

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  • Looking at the error message, it seems to be using the = as part of the pathname. Try: CERTFILE /usr/local/etc/pki/tls/private/x.pem Dec 20, 2019 at 21:36
  • Thanks. I made the change to dma.conf to remove the = but the problem remains: Dec 23 09:17:49 gway05 dma[28a88.8018280f0]: SSL: Cannot load certificate '/usr/local/etc/pki/tls/private/gway05_ss.pem': error:140DC002:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file:system lib. The = is gone from the error message but hat is about the only change. Dec 23, 2019 at 14:20
  • The certificate that we are using is a self-signed openssl rsa generated using: openssl req -new -newkey rsa:4096 -x509 -sha256 -set_serial 201912200501 -days 3650 -nodes -out gway05_ss.crt -keyout gway05_ss.key Openssl verify shows exactly what we expect: openssl verify /usr/local/etc/pki/tls/private/gway05_ss.pem /usr/local/etc/pki/tls/private/gway05_ss.pem: C = CA, ST = Ontario, L = Hamilton, O = Harte & Lyne Limited, OU = IT, CN = gway05.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca, emailAddress = [email protected] error 18 at 0 depth lookup:self signed certificate OK Dec 23, 2019 at 14:40

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The problem with error:140DC002:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file:system lib is caused by the pem file not being readable by the wheel group. changing the permissions on /usr/local/etc/pki/tls/private/gway05_ss.pem to -rw-r----- 1 root wheel resolves the issue.

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