[Dovecot] 1.0 beta1 testing

[Reuben Farrelly]

On 16/01/2006 12:01 p.m., Chris Wakelin wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 23:03 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 21:54 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>>> If you have time, please test
>>>>
>>>> http://dovecot.org/nightly/dovecot-latest.tar.gz
>>
>> Rebuilt this a couple of times already since there was problems with
>> login process finding the ssl-parameters file. Should finally work now
>> properly. :)
>>
> 
> It took a good ten minutes to generate the ssl-parameters.dat file on 
> Solaris on an Sun Ultra 5 (probably counts as a slow machine!) during 
> which logins were hanging.
> 
> I'd vote for starting with some pregenerated ones, generating them when 
> Dovecot starts (rather at the first SSL login) or somehow making it 
> clear that the generation is still going on. I was about to email you to 
> say it wasn't working; trussing the login process seemed to suggest it 
> was looping :-

I had the same problem, there have been some commits to CVS earlier but since 
the nightly release, which seem to fix it.

You may want to give the next nightly a go or pull from CVS and see if that 
helps (it probably will).

reuben