[Users] "SSL/TLS certificate is expired"

[Colin Leroy-Mira]

On 30 April 2021 at 11h16, Adrian via Users wrote:

Hi, 

> I have a server certificate authenticated by LetsEncrypt which
> auto-renews every three months.
> 
> It did this at the beginning of the month and the new expiry date is
> July 2nd.  The private key is is copied to my mailserver's config
> directory and is readable by it.
> 
> But Claws Mail is complaining that the certificate has expired.

When the certificate is renewed, the service(s) using it have to be
reloaded or restarted. My renew crontab is like this:

0 23 * * * /usr/bin/certbot renew && /usr/sbin/nginx -s reload

(as it is nginx using that cert)

HTH,
-- 
Colin