On 3/14/19 9:32 AM, Yassine Chaouche via dovecot wrote:
The general answere here is try and see, as you could totally test it
on your own. The certificate is read at startup and put in memory for
the rest of the execution time. Dovecot won't monitor the file for
changes on disk, as this would waste CPU cycles and make dovecot only
slower for no reason. The process (or person) that changes the file is
responsible to restart dovecot to reload the new certificate in memory.
Yassine.
I should mention that this is also true for Apache and postfix.
Yassine.
