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Monthly Archives: July 2021
Dovecot SASL
Here’s some info about Dovecot SASL. I integrate this facility for Postfix authentication too. So my SMTP system has a dependency on my IMAP/POP3 system. In the backend it’s a MySQL database…
openssl dhparam -out dh.pem
So I was getting errors like this in syslog:
Jul 6 17:35:53 integrity systemd[1]: Started Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server. Jul 6 17:35:53 integrity dovecot[10775]: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 79: ssl_dh: Can't open file /etc/dovecot/dh.pem: No such file or directory Jul 6 17:35:53 integrity systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=89/n/a Jul 6 17:35:53 integrity systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
This failure was affecting other parts of my system (i.e. postfix SASL).
The solution was to generate the dh.pem file:
root@integrity:/etc/dovecot # openssl dhparam -out dh.pem 4096
You Are Gonna Need It
Over on YAGNI exceptions some ideas about what you probably are gonna need…
The Fetch standard
The Fetch standard defines requests, responses, and the process that binds them: fetching.
Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design
Today via HN: Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design.