Linux Mail Server Setup and Howto Guide

Hi Consultant,

3x things to point out about this tutorial:

Firstly, instead of:

DocumentRoot = /usr/share/squirrelmail
ServerName = mail.acme.local:443

it needs to read:

DocumentRoot /usr/share/squirrelmail
ServerName mail.acme.local:443

i found that httpd would not restart until this change was made, throwing up an error of: Syntax error on line 4 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf: DocumentRoot takes one argument, Root directory of the document tree [FAILED]

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Next, one needs the following two lines at the top of their ssl.conf file:

LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
Listen 443

Otherise, httpd doesn't know what SSLCertificateFile is, and again it won't start. The syntax error is: "Invalid command 'SSLCertificateFile', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration"

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Finally, I'm still getting the following error when trying to connect to my site:

(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)

Any thoughts on what to do? in telnet it looks like ssl is running ok in psotfix and dovecot. My ssl.conf file looks like this:

LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
Listen 443

DocumentRoot /usr/share/squirrelmail
ServerName mail.my.fqdn.name:443
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/mail.my.fqdn.name.cert
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/mail.my.fqdn.name.key

been racking my brain about this for a few days, so hope you can help. Cheers, Scott.