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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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