Dovecot and Letsencrypt certs

@lbutlr kremels at kreme.com
Fri Sep 8 20:51:34 EEST 2017


On 08 Sep 2017, at 10:08, Ralph Seichter <m16+dovecot at monksofcool.net> wrote:
> What is Dovecot supposed to do? Keep track of the certificate expiry
> date? And if that is passed, then what? Automatically shutdown/restart?
> What if the certificate has not been updated in between? I think that
> handling certificates is better left to the administrator.

How I would do it is IF the certificate is expired, the dovecot should check if there is a new cert and if so, load it. This prevents a failure event, but doesn't interfere with reloading the cert when it is renewed.

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