Hello again, It appears that I have managed to make a bit of progress on my own since my original post. For some odd reason I got past the FileNotFound exception by changing (adding) execute permission to the directory containing the keystore file. So now it is set as follows -
quasar:/mail/apache-james-3.4/james-server-app-3.4.0/conf # ll -d keystore.privateFiles drwxrwxrwx 2 james mail 4096 Dec 27 22:11 keystore.privateFiles It is a puzzler (at least to me) why adding execute permissions would allow James to find my Keystore file. But I immediately hit another snag, James is not correctly applying the password to access the keystore file and throwing another exception. The smtpserver.xml is configured as follows - <tls socketTLS="false" startTLS="true"> <keystore>file:/mail/apache-james-3.4/james-server-app-3.4.0/conf/keystore</keystore> <secret>mypassword</secret> <provider>org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider</provider> <algorithm>SunX509</algorithm> </tls> To test the keystore file I executed the following command and it worked fine - quasar:/mail/apache-james-3.4/james-server-app-3.4.0/conf # keytool -list -v -keystore /mail/apache-james-3.4/james-server-app-3.4.0/conf/keystore -storetype PKCS12 -storepass mypassword The exception and stack walkback I am getting from James is shown below. I am continuing to Google for answers but no joy so far... Anyone here got any ideas? Thanks again in advance... Marc. ---- INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | WARN 17:13:26,963 | org.apache.james.container.spring.context.JamesServerApplicationContext | Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'smtpserver': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.io.IOException: keystore password was incorrect INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | INFO 17:13:26,964 | org.apache.james.mailetcontainer.impl.JamesMailSpooler | start dispose() ... INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | INFO 17:13:26,964 | org.apache.james.mailetcontainer.impl.JamesMailSpooler | thread shutdown completed. INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | WrapperSimpleApp: Encountered an error running main: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'smtpserver': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.io.IOException: keystore password was incorrect INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'smtpserver': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.io.IOException: keystore password was incorrect INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InitDestroyAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(InitDestroyAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:133) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:396) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1507) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:293) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:191) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:638) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:942) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:482) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:93) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.apache.james.container.spring.context.JamesServerApplicationContext.<init>(JamesServerApplicationContext.java:40) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.apache.james.app.spring.JamesAppSpringMain.init(JamesAppSpringMain.java:56) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.apache.james.app.spring.JamesAppSpringMain.main(JamesAppSpringMain.java:42) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperSimpleApp.run(WrapperSimpleApp.java:240) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | Caused by: java.io.IOException: keystore password was incorrect INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at sun.security.pkcs12.PKCS12KeyStore.engineLoad(PKCS12KeyStore.java:2059) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at sun.security.provider.KeyStoreDelegator.engineLoad(KeyStoreDelegator.java:238) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore$DualFormatJKS.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:70) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at java.security.KeyStore.load(KeyStore.java:1445) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.apache.james.protocols.lib.netty.AbstractConfigurableAsyncServer.buildSSLContext(AbstractConfigurableAsyncServer.java:405) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.apache.james.protocols.lib.netty.AbstractConfigurableAsyncServer.init(AbstractConfigurableAsyncServer.java:263) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.apache.james.protocols.lib.netty.AbstractServerFactory.init(AbstractServerFactory.java:57) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InitDestroyAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$LifecycleElement.invoke(InitDestroyAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:344) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InitDestroyAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$LifecycleMetadata.invokeInitMethods(InitDestroyAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:295) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InitDestroyAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(InitDestroyAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:130) INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | ... 22 more INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | Caused by: java.security.UnrecoverableKeyException: failed to decrypt safe contents entry: java.lang.IllegalStateException: password has been cleared INFO | jvm 1 | 2019/12/28 17:13:27 | ... 36 more -- --... ...-- .----. ... -.. . .-- .- --... .--. -..- .-- -- .- .-. -.-. *Computers: the final frontier. 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