Thank you, Victor.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM Viktor Dukhovni via Postfix-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 04:57:41PM -0400, Gerard Seibert via Postfix-users
> wrote:
>
> > I have tried everything I can think of to get Postfix to work with TLS.
>
> But failed to check your Postfix logs, which dutifully report the
> misconfiguration:
>
> > smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/letsencrypt/live/seibercom.net/chain.pem
> > smtpd_tls_CApath = /etc/ssl/certs
>
> Though not the real problem, best left empty since you're not soliciting
> client certificates.
>
> > smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/seibercom.net/fullchain.pem
> > smtpd_tls_chain_files = /etc/letsencrypt/live/
> seibercom.net/fullchain.pem
> > smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/seibercom.net/privkey.pem
>
> These are wrong, and will cause Postfix to disable TLS support.  You can
> set either:
>
>     # The key must be listed first!
>     smtpd_tls_chain_files =
>         /etc/letsencrypt/live/seibercom.net/privkey.pem
>         /etc/letsencrypt/live/seibercom.net/fullchain.pem
>
> Or else:
>
>     smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/
> seibercom.net/fullchain.pem
>     smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/letsencrypt/live/seibercom.net/privkey.pem
>
> but not both, and the critical error is pointing smtpd_tls_chain_files
> at a file with certificates, that does not start with the associated
> private key.
>
>     https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_tls_chain_files
>
> For example, I have:
>
>     # for cf in $(postconf -xh smtpd_tls_chain_files |
>                   sed -E 's/[, \t]+/\n/g')
>       do
>           printf "\n%s\n" "${cf##*/}"
>           grep -hE "^-----" "$cf"
>       done
>
>     combo.pem
>     -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
>     -----END PRIVATE KEY-----
>     -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
>     -----END CERTIFICATE-----
>     -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
>     -----END CERTIFICATE-----
>
>     chain-ml-dsa-65.1.pem
>     -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
>     -----END PRIVATE KEY-----
>     -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
>     -----END CERTIFICATE-----
>
> The first "combo.pem" contains an RSA private key concatenated with the
> associated LE "full chain".  The second an "ML-DSA-65" private key and
> self-signed certificate.  Each associated public key is matched by a
> corresponding TLSA "3 1 1" record:
>
>     3 1 1 f4d9cf3b4e251085a4f3193daaf3a5141cd95c7109d33c971c3f8f7cec48cd1b
>     3 1 1 c0b67b03dab597a5d8b743e709ae080d7d3e509a7bab0a0288d8987feaeae803
>
> --
>     Viktor.  🇺🇦 Слава Україні!
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