Re: Am I right to assume certificate renewal with the same filename requires a dovecot reload/restart

2019-03-14 Thread Patrick Cernko via dovecot
Hi Yassine, hi Kostya, On 14.03.19 10:17, Kostya Vasilyev via dovecot wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, at 12:09 PM, Yassine Chaouche via dovecot wrote: On 3/14/19 9:55 AM, Patrick Cernko via dovecot wrote: [...] the way we have configured exim, it neither needs reload or restart but reads the

Re: Am I right to assume certificate renewal with the same filename requires a dovecot reload/restart

2019-03-14 Thread Kostya Vasilyev via dovecot
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, at 12:09 PM, Yassine Chaouche via dovecot wrote: > On 3/14/19 9:55 AM, Patrick Cernko via dovecot wrote: > > > [...] the way we have configured exim, it neither needs reload or > > restart but reads the certificate file every time it has to use it. > > What happens if you

Re: Am I right to assume certificate renewal with the same filename requires a dovecot reload/restart

2019-03-14 Thread Guido Goluke, MajorLabel via dovecot
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, at 11:33 AM, Yassine Chaouche via dovecot wrote: 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

Re: Am I right to assume certificate renewal with the same filename requires a dovecot reload/restart

2019-03-14 Thread Yassine Chaouche via dovecot
On 3/14/19 9:55 AM, Patrick Cernko via dovecot wrote: [...] the way we have configured exim, it neither needs reload or restart but reads the certificate file every time it has to use it. What happens if you goof off in the middle of an opeartion, temporarily putting a wrong file instead of

Re: Am I right to assume certificate renewal with the same filename requires a dovecot reload/restart

2019-03-14 Thread Kostya Vasilyev via dovecot
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, at 11:33 AM, Yassine Chaouche via dovecot wrote: > 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

Re: Am I right to assume certificate renewal with the same filename requires a dovecot reload/restart

2019-03-14 Thread Patrick Cernko via dovecot
Hi, On 14.03.19 09:33, Yassine Chaouche via dovecot wrote: 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.

Re: Am I right to assume certificate renewal with the same filename requires a dovecot reload/restart

2019-03-14 Thread Yassine Chaouche via dovecot
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

Re: Am I right to assume certificate renewal with the same filename requires a dovecot reload/restart

2019-03-14 Thread Yassine Chaouche via dovecot
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

Am I right to assume certificate renewal with the same filename requires a dovecot reload/restart

2019-03-14 Thread Guido Goluke, MajorLabel via dovecot
Running dovecot 2.2, apologies if this question has been asked before: I've done the research but couldn't find anything. I run a server that uses dovecot as a MUA for Postfix and have a Let's Encrypt certificate that auto-renews through certbot on Ubuntu server 16.04. Dovecot did not pick up