On 15.12.2010, at 21.57, Noel Butler wrote: >> Willie Gillespie wrote: >>> Does your configuration file have those "<" characters in it? If so, >>> try getting rid of those. >> >> It was pointed out to me that v2 does show "<" characters in the docs, >> which I guess is a change since v1. >> >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SSL/DovecotConfiguration > > WTF? What was the rationale behind that I wonder.
It's now possible to put the SSL certs into the config file directly rather than require it to be in a separate file. This made it possible and easy to implement per-IP certificates. Well, now that I think about it, I guess it would have been possible to keep the original ssl_cert_file setting and just mark it as a "this is a filename, read it into memory" setting. That wouldn't have allowed in-config certs though. Also this "<" mechanism works for all settings, and might be useful in some places (such as ssl_key_password = </etc/dovecot/ssl-key-pass).
