Yves Goergen wrote:

On 09.08.2010 12:36 CE(S)T, Charles Marcus wrote:

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Yves Goergen wrote:

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what does the Dovecot process ssl-build-param do?

Google is your friend...

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=dovecot+wiki+ssl-build-param

Wow, that was easy. Unfortunately, it didn't give me better results than last time. It just took longer. Can anybody help with better suggestions than pointing to some web search?

Reading the actual results might help...

From the first hit re: the above web search:

"SSL security settings

When Dovecot starts up for the first time, it generates new 512bit and 1024bit Diffie Hellman parameters and saves them into <prefix>/var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.ssl. After the initial creation they're by default regenerated every week. With newer computers the generation shouldn't take more than a few seconds, but with older computers it can take as long as half an hour. The extra security gained by the regeneration is quite small, so with slower computers you might want to disable it:

ssl_parameters_regenerate = 0"

So, I think it is only logical to deduce that the ssl-build-param process is the process that controls the generation of the ssl-params.

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Best regards,

Charles