[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#573889: Bug#573889: libssl0.9.8: unknown message digest algorithm error in dovecot

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:40:34PM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:53:07PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > I ran into similar problems with my dovecot (1.2.10-1) installation.
> > > After upgrading to libssl0.9.8m-2 I'm unable to connect to my dovecot server (which uses a self-signed certificate) using tls/ssl connections.
> 
> I am using dovecot as well, by default using SSL over port 993. My typical
> imap client is Thunderbird 3.0.3. I just switched the config to starttls
> over port 143. This worked just fine. The certificate for imap is another
> one than the one I use for postfix. The are signed by the same CA however.

icedove is not using libssl nor gnutls but uses it's own ssl
library.  So it might not be compatible with the current version.

Can you setting up an s_server and connecting with icedove to
that?


Kurt