Bug#315126: exim4-config: No provision for tls_certificate without tls_privatekey

John Goerzen John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, 315126@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 5 Jul 2005 07:56:08 -0500


On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 11:43:24PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:49:06PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > According to the exim4 docs I have, if one has a single file that has
> > both a SSL certificate and a SSL private key, that file must be listed
> > in tls_certificate and tls_privatekey must be left blank.  The
> > configuration system doesn't have a way to specify that, since not
> > specifying a macro for tls_privatekey causes a default value to be used.
> 
> I have to investigate that in some spare time. To make things short -
> how does exim behave if "/dev/null" or "" is given as tls_privatekey?

I assume that the default value of tls_privatekey is "", so that should
be fine.  I would have to take down my MTA to verify that or the
/dev/null.  I'd prefer not to, but if you need me to, I can.

-- John