#1095427 postfix: Wrong SSL certificate prevent postfix to start (silently)

Package:
postfix
Source:
postfix
Description:
High-performance mail transport agent
Submitter:
Mihaly Zachar
Date:
2025-02-08 11:21:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1095427#5
Date:
2025-02-07 19:00:29 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I accidentally copied an RSA private key to /etc/ssl/certs directory.
After that postfix was not able to start anymore and I could not find
any obvious reason why.

"systemctl status postfix" showed that it was running, however when I
checked the listening sockets, I could not find postfix.

Status was:
Active: active (exited)

It would be nice to be able to see that postfix could not start.

I figured out that /usr/lib/postfix/configure-instance.sh:84 caused the
problem...

openssl rehash exited silently with exit status 2.

Regards,
Mihaly

#1095427#10
Date:
2025-02-08 11:18:33 UTC
From:
To:
This has been fixed in later versions of postfix in sid/trixie.
configure-instance does not use openssl anymore.

FWIW.

/mjt