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From: "Sam Jorna (wraeth)" <wraeth@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unhelpful dovecot upgrade help
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2018 04:36:07
Message-Id: 3ba533cd-286d-4a47-e6ef-8dd8d6914c78@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Unhelpful dovecot upgrade help by Peter Humphrey
1 On 9/2/18 7:43 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > Hello list,
3 >
4 > Today I upgraded dovecot on my local server from 2.2.34 to 2.3.2.1. On
5 > restarting dovecot I got this:
6 >
7 > # /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
8 > doveconf: Warning: please set ssl_dh=</etc/dovecot/dh.pem
9 > doveconf: Warning: You can generate it with: dd if=/var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat bs=1 skip=88 | openssl dhparam -inform der > /etc/dovecot/dh.pem
10 >
11 > The second warning was spot-on, but what the first warning ought to have
12 > said is "Uncomment the line #ssl_dh = </etc/dovecot/dh.pem in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf."
13 >
14 > It took a bit of head-scratching to work that out. i just wanted to help
15 > others doing this upgrade.
16 >
17
18 There was also at least one case mentioned on IRC where not setting
19 'postmaster_address' to a full valid address ("postmaster@××××××.tld")
20 caused sieve filtering to fail. In this particular case it was set to
21 'postmaster@'.
22
23 Whether this was the extent of the symptom or not is unclear - it may
24 have halted the lda altogether.
25
26 --
27 Sam Jorna (wraeth)
28 GnuPG ID: D6180C26

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