[Dovecot] 1.0 beta1 released

[Brad]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:40:22PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 13:35 -0800, Peter Hessler wrote:
> > That's silly.  The first thing I try with any new install is test it
> > out.  The idea of generating the DH key during install is useful.
> 
> Well, the problem with this is that there's no standard way to "install
> Dovecot". Each binary package builder would have to do this separately.
> For people installing from sources there would have to be some special
> command for doing this and instructions for doing this.
> 
> Unless you mean that it should work exactly as now, except Dovecot
> shouldn't be left running in background before the DH parameters are
> generated? I don't see much difference here. And it'd need more code :)
 
Could you at least print something in the logs letting the admin know when
the key generation has started and stopped? Depending on the speed of the
system this could take anywhere from a minute to half an hour.