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  • Unable to figure out how to create ssl.cert

    From Sam Alexander@VERT/BLUEBOX to All on Sunday, July 06, 2025 19:44:42
    Hey everyone --
    For the life of me can't figure out how to create ssl.cert so I can get email going. I checked this site out:
    http://wiki.synchro.net/module:certtool

    And I ran this which created csr.pem
    jsexec certtool --csr --domain totallynerd.com > csr.pem

    ... and then ran this --
    jsexec certtool --import csr.pem

    ... but it says it is unable to open csr.pem though it's there.

    I'm a bit lost from all this where ssl.cert is created. Hope someone can give some insight. Thanks.
    Sam

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Sam Alexander on Sunday, July 06, 2025 20:53:15
    Re: Unable to figure out how to create ssl.cert
    By: Sam Alexander to All on Sun Jul 06 2025 07:44 pm

    For the life of me can't figure out how to create ssl.cert so I can get email going. I checked this site out:

    sbbs automatically creates the ssl.cert file (as a self-signed certificate) when it doesn't already exist. You don't actually need this to "get email going" however. If you do actually require SMTPS to send email (e.g. to gmail.com), then you'll need a CA-signed certificate (e.g. from letsencrypt.org). See https://wiki.synchro.net/module:letsyncrypt for details.
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  • From Sam Alexander@VERT/BLUEBOX to Digital Man on Sunday, July 06, 2025 23:06:40
    Re: Unable to figure out how to create ssl.cert
    By: Digital Man to Sam Alexander on Sun Jul 06 2025 08:53 pm

    sbbs automatically creates the ssl.cert file (as a self-signed certificate) when it doesn't already exist. You don't actually need this to "get email going" however. If you do actually require SMTPS to send email (e.g. to gmail.com),
    then you'll need a CA-signed certificate (e.g. from letsencrypt.org). See https://wiki.synchro.net/module:letsyncrypt for details.

    I kept getting mail errors saying it couldn't find ssl.cert when mail was sending and receiving, so I assumed this was needed. I actually setup relaying through your site, but it's still not working. But no mail will come in even though the two POP ports are open to the Internet.

    I'll try the Lets Encrypt just to see if I can get the ssl.cert error to go away if nothing else.

    Thanks --

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  • From Sam Alexander@VERT/BLUEBOX to Digital Man on Monday, July 07, 2025 07:01:32
    Re: Unable to figure out how to create ssl.cert
    By: Sam Alexander to Digital Man on Sun Jul 06 2025 11:06 pm

    Re: Unable to figure out how to create ssl.cert
    By: Digital Man to Sam Alexander on Sun Jul 06 2025 08:53 pm

    sbbs automatically creates the ssl.cert file (as a self-signed certificate) when it doesn't already exist. You don't actually need this to "get email going" however. If you do
    actually
    require SMTPS to send email (e.g. to gmail.com), then you'll need a CA-signed certificate (e.g. from letsencrypt.org). See https://wiki.synchro.net/module:letsyncrypt for details.

    I kept getting mail errors saying it couldn't find ssl.cert when mail was sending and receiving, so I assumed this was needed. I actually setup relaying through your site, but it's
    still
    not working. But no mail will come in even though the two POP ports are open to the Internet.

    I'll try the Lets Encrypt just to see if I can get the ssl.cert error to go away if nothing else.

    Another error I'm getting with pop3 which I thought was related to the cert, I've not received any emails yet, but when a connection comes in they all give this error with private key.
    7/7 06:43:27 mail 0048 POP3S [162.142.125.118] Connection accepted on 192.168.4.109 port 995 from port 53678
    7/7 06:43:27 mail 0048 POP3S [162.142.125.118] Hostname: scanner-19.ch1.censys-scanner.com
    7/7 06:43:27 mail 0048 POP3S [162.142.125.118] ERROR 'Bad argument, parameter 3' (-3) setting private key

    You'd mentioned the ssl.cert should've been created automatically, but I didn't have it after I built SBBS.

    Thanks again for your insight -
    Sam

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