> On December 26, 2017 at 11:42 PM Kenneth Porter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm setting up certbot/letsencrypt to provide a certificate for dovecot and > sendmail. Is it necessary to restart dovecot to load the new certificate, > as shown in most examples I find in blogs? That seems rude to established > connections. When does dovecot read the cert and key files? Once at startup > or each time a connection requests SSL? Is there a preferred locking > protocol when changing the two files to keep dovecot from reading one while > the other is being replaced and getting a mismatched pair?
doveadm reload should be enough. Aki
