[Dovecot] Dovecot + SSL + Fedora

[Oleg I. Vdovikin]

Hi!

    Dovecot runs with no problems on my up2date RH9 box with SSL. Also, I've
build custom rpm for 0.99.10.5 release with uw-imap pop3 uid patch based on
FC2 dovecot and they works pretty good. ;-)

Regards,
Oleg.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin at Weiss.name>
To: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 1:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot + SSL + Fedora


> On Mon, 24 May 2004, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> > On 24.5.2004, at 10:43, David Keegel wrote:
> >
> > > I've been seeing the Dovecot/SSL/Fedora 1 problem.
> > >
> > > I have a dovecot server which tends to die at least once a day,
> > > with messages like these :-
> > > May 24 13:44:44 mail pop3-login: RAND_bytes() failed:
> > > error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not
> > > seeded
> > > May 24 13:44:44 mail dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting
> > > down
> > >
> > > I noticed Timo's email about this at:
> > > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-May/003316.html
> > > with the patch that just ignores the return code of RAND_bytes().
> >
> > That fixes the crashes, but probably still causes occational problems
> > with SSL connection handshakes failing.
>
> I require encrypted communications between my server and my client for all
> services, including smtp and imap.  I was getting ready to upgrade my
> server from RH9 and imap-2000 to fedora core 1 and dovecot until I saw
> this thread.
>
> Has anybody brought the ssl problem to the upstream maintainers so that it
> can get fixed?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ben
>
>