Sure, I'm using alpha3 with ssl 0.9.8 on Solaris 9 Sparc, no problems. Alpha2 worked with 098 as well. Everything is built with gcc 4.0.1. Mbox format, method=PLAIN, TLS, for imap.
BUT... openssl 0.9.8 had major problems on HP PA-RISC chipsets with HPUX (32 bit and 64 bit), using gcc 4.0.1. It miserably failed its self-tests. The SSL folks and I traced this to buggy code coming out of gcc 4.0.1. With gcc 3.4.4 on the same platforms, everything worked fine. I don't know if the SSL folks sent this bug up the chain to GNU central or not.
Jeff Earickson Colby College
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Andy Cravens wrote:
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:36:52 -0600 From: Andy Cravens acravens@uen.org To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Problems with alpha3 + openssl-0.9.8
Has anybody successfully compiled alpha 3 with the newly released openssl-0.9.8? I just wasted the weekend trying to get dovecot to compile using the new openssl libs. Openssl-0.9.7d works like dream. Just wanted to know if anybody had this combo working.