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

[Marc Haber]

user exim4 at packages.debian.org
usertags #315126 valid-bug fixable
tags #315126 confirmed
thanks

I apologize for taking to long to investigate.

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.

Leaving blank tls_privatekey is not good enough, tls_privatekey needs
to be unset for exim to look in the certificate file for the private
key. I consider this overly finicky by exim, and have filed wishlist
request 71 in upstream's bugzilla.

In the mean time, I have introduced a new macro called
MAIN_TLS_CERTKEY pointing to a single file containing certificate and
key, and taking precedence about other manual file location
configuration. Is this change accptable to you?

Greetings
Marc

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