Am I right to assume certificate renewal with the same filename requires a dovecot reload/restart

[Yassine Chaouche]

On 3/14/19 9:32 AM, Yassine Chaouche via dovecot wrote:
> The general answere here is try and see, as you could totally test it 
> on your own. The certificate is read at startup and put in memory for 
> the rest of the execution time. Dovecot won't monitor the file for 
> changes on disk, as this would waste CPU cycles and make dovecot only 
> slower for no reason. The process (or person) that changes the file is 
> responsible to restart dovecot to reload the new certificate in memory.
>
> Yassine.

I should mention that this is also true for Apache and postfix.

Yassine.