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  Re: Unable to figure out how to create ssl.cert
  By: Sam Alexander to Digital Man on Mon Jul 07 2025 07:01 am

 >   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.

The ctrl/cryptlib.key (private key) and ctrl/cert.ssl (self-signed cert) files
are automatically created when you *run* (not build) SBBS. Do you have the
cryptlib.key file? Note: If you change your system password, these files have
to be recreated.
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