Re: deliver fails because of a permission issue with SSL private key file

Thanks, Aki!

I was about to post essentially the same problem (except in my case 
fetchmail executes deliver). What you sent makes it work for me.

I'd like to understand a bit more, if you've got time to explain or 
point to relevant doc sections.

* Is this expected behavior in 2.4, or is it considered a bug?

* If it's expected behavior, why does this workaround work?

Thanks again,

-Martin

On 2/17/26 8:36 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
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>       On 17/02/2026 18:19 EET Markus Schoenhaber via dovecot
>       <[1][email protected]> wrote:
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>       17.02.26, 17:11 +0100, Benny Pedersen via dovecot:
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>         Markus Schoenhaber via dovecot skrev den 2026-02-17 16:53:
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>         if world can read private keys, then is sooks :)
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>       I know that.
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>       I simply wanted to know whether what "looks more like syntax error than
>       permission error" goes away if I change the permission.
>       And it does.
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>       --
>       Regards
>       mks
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>     You can workaround this issue with
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>     ssl = no
>     !try_include /etc/dovecot/ssl.conf
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>     and put
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>     ssl = yes
>     ssl_server {
>        ...
>     }
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>     in ssl.conf and chmod 0640 root:root.
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>     Aki
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