[Dovecot] Is Dovecot ready for production use?

[Anders Nielsen]

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 20:35, Rick Johnson wrote:
> Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks, but I received an email pointing out an SSL problem with Fedora and
> > dovecot:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115284
> > 
> > 
> > and I do *all* connections to my server in an encrypted mode, even imaps.
> > 
> > If dovecot is going to crash on an hourly basis, I may have to stick with uw
> > and mbox. :(
> > 
> 
> I have yet to experience this problem with the 0.99.10.4 version from 
> the Devel tree. We do 95% of our connections via SSL as well (OpenSSL), 
> and I run Fedora Core 1 at home for a personal server configured in the 
> same fashion.
> 
> Note I am using a dovecot package from the devel tree. That version is: 
> dovecot-0.99.10.4-3. The package that was reported was 
> dovecot-0.99.10-6, which is the "stock" fedora package. We had problems 
> with that version too, which is why I stepped up. So far, we've avoided 
> any crashes as a result of the update.
> 

It was me who pointed this problem out to Benjamin in a private email.

I have rebuilded and installed the version of the package you mention. I
will test it out to see if it fixes the problem. It does however look
like Timo is still working on a fix tough.

-- 
Anders Nielsen <anielsen at diku.dk>