[Dovecot] Dovecot broken with newer OpenSSL

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jul 27, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Brad wrote:

>> Jul 20 20:34:38 warden dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth
>> attempts): rip=80.237.136.4, lip=80.237.235.10, TLS handshaking: SS
>> L_accept() failed: error:03078041:bignum
>> routines:BN_EXPAND_INTERNAL:malloc failure
>>
>>
>> However, deleting the ssl-parameters.dat file and restarting dovecot
>> fixed the issue.
>
> Timo,
>
> Any idea why deleting the ssl-parameters.dat file helps? Should  
> users have
> to delete this file when upgrading between OpenSSL versions?

I guess because the file is generated from some internal OpenSSL  
structures that change between versions.. I guess it would be possible  
to somehow detect that the format has changed, but until people start  
complaining more about this I think I'm too lazy to figure it out :)