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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:19:45AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 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?

I tried setting up an s_server and connect to that using
iceweasel, which worked for me ...


Kurt