Dovecote.conf feedback

Ok, steps were:

  1. updated to webmin 1.954 & virtualmin 6.11
    updates applied:
    certbot
    clamav
    fail2ban
    python
    usermin
    virtualmin-config
    wbm-*
    webmin

Dovecote server working

  1. renewed LE cert for mysystemdomain.com
    requested certificate for:
    mysystemdomain.com
    mail.mysystemdomain.com
    www.mysystemdomain.com
    server1.mysystemdomain.com

Dovecote server stopped could not restart

dovecote.conf - after updating webmin & virtualmin but before LE cert request:

# A config file can also tried to be included without giving an error if
# it's not found:
!include_try local.conf
local_name mail.mysystemdomain.com {
  ssl_cert = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.cert
  ssl_key = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.key
}
local_name mysystemdomain.com {
ssl_cert = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.cert
ssl_key = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.key
  ssl_ca = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.ca
}
local_name www.mysystemdomain.com {
ssl_cert = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.cert
ssl_key = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.key
  ssl_ca = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.ca
}
local_name anotherdomain.com {
ssl_cert = </home/anotherdomain/ssl.cert
ssl_key = </home/anotherdomain/ssl.key
}
...4500 more lines with domains/alias'/sub domains

dovecote.conf - after updating webmin & virtualmin and after subsequent LE cert request:

# A config file can also tried to be included without giving an error if
# it's not found:
!include_try local.conf
local_name mail.mysystemdomain.com {
  ssl_cert = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.combined
  ssl_key = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.key
}
local_name mysystemdomain.com {
  ssl_cert = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.combined
  ssl_key = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.key
}
local_name www.mysystemdomain.com {
ssl_cert = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.cert
  ssl_cert = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.combined
  ssl_key = </home/mysystemdomain/ssl.key
local_name anotherdomain.com {
ssl_cert = </home/anotherdomain/ssl.cert
ssl_key = </home/anotherdomain/ssl.key
}
...4500 more lines with domains/alias'/sub domains

As I said before adding the missing bracket and dovecote restarted.

Now I’ve posted this I do remember @Joe mentioning something somewhere about extraneous ssl_ca lines in the conf file perhaps those were causing the problem,