On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:04:49PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Thu, 15.07.10 11:02, Chris Adams (cmadams(a)hiwaay.net) wrote:
>
> Once upon a time, Simo Sorce <ssorce(a)redhat.com> said:
> > We have a bug open with CUPS trying to generate SSL certs on the first
> > connections, being too slow and causing the client to timeout.
> > So no, you can't make assumptions here.
>
> Dovecot generating its SSL parameters can take 10 seconds on the first
> startup, so that would be another one with a problem.
In contrast to SSH it is very unlikely that dovecot will run on
non-server systems. However on server systems on-demand spawning of
services is much less desirable. Socket activation doesn't matter to
server software like IMAP servers really, and and neither does on-demand
generation on SSL certificates. If you run a server then you want to
have the daemons run right on bootup, and generate the SSL before that.
I am not sure how common it is, but I use dovecot to be able to access
the mail that is stored on my desktop with both mutt and kmail. I am not
sure how kmail does it nowadays, but it used to use its own Maildir
structure that did not work well with anything else using Maildir.
Therefore a IMAP server is a nice way of abstracting it for every mail
client.
Regards
Till