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Apologies, postfix was pointed to old cert file

2026-02-02 by: Mike Harrison via chugalug
From: Mike Harrison via chugalug 
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Sorry folks, while I renewed certs a while ago, certbot changed the name 
of the file I had in postfix's main.cf So the mail server has been not 
doing TLS/StartTLS properly for a few days. It passes it's tests now. 
May have had some delivery failures over the past 18 days because of it. 
  Certbot does a nice job of managing Apache and NGX servers configs, I 
did not notice it had picked a different base domain name because I had 
added domains to this server, and it does not change 
/etc/postfix/main.cf  Which is probably a good thing. Mine are weird.

On the good side, while checking things out, learned about DANE:

Time to learn something new?  DANE = DNS-based Authentication of Named 
Entities.  Poorly supported in end clients, so fare. But I'm liking the 
ideas presented for verifying what CA is supposed to be the issuing CA. 
A cross check.  May also be useful for self-signed certs. Gonna have to 
play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Named_Entities




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Mike Harrison
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