dovecot - Aug 2010 - Dovecot 2.0.rc4 not generating ssl-parameters.dat on first start

Dear Dovecot lovers!

When starting Dovecot 1.x the first time, it runs "ssl-build-params"
to generate a file named "ssl-parameters.dat". This takes a couple
of minutes. During this time users have no access to their mail,
but this can be planned in advance and users can be notified.
This is explained in http://wiki.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration

With Dovecot 2.0.rc4, the new command "ssl-params" seems to do this
job,
but unfortunately it isn't run on first start of Dovecot but the start
is delayed until a user connects to port 993 (or does STARTTLS in 143).
According to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration
it should behave the same way as Dovecot 1 did.

So, with Dovecot 2.0.rc4 it hits the first user who wants to establish
a secure connection. It's hard to explain this to users. ;-)

Of course, I could simply run "telnet <imaphost> 993" manually
after
installation. I also tried running "ssl-params" manually before
starting
Dovecot but it stays in foreground forever and doesn't seem to finish
(what is it waiting for?) So it would be really great if Dovecot 2 could
do this on its own like Dovecot 1 did. 

	Besides that, Dovecot 2.0 runs like a charm ... Andreas

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 21:52 +0200, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
> With Dovecot 2.0.rc4, the new command "ssl-params" seems to do
this job,
> but unfortunately it isn't run on first start of Dovecot but the start
> is delayed until a user connects to port 993 (or does STARTTLS in 143).
> According to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration
> it should behave the same way as Dovecot 1 did.
Fixed: 

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/351948b4dc6c
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/b8a09fa4acc4
(and http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/59b0e70c8f14 :)