Odd problem: IMAP/S suddenly not working, but no errors, and IMAP still works

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Mon Nov 1 19:26:07 EDT 2010


On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:40:13PM -0400, Chris Pepper wrote:
> Bron,
> 
> 	My Cyrus is from RPM, and I am just nursing it along until my users
> finish migrating off and FastMail manages to complete my own
> migration, so I don't want to build from source. Why would IMAP/S
> block on empty /dev/random, while IMAP+STARTTLS works? FWIW, SASL2
> seems to use urandom.

I really don't know to be honest - we don't run any ssl enabled imapds,
we do all the ssl in nginx on the frontend.  It sounds like Rob's
workaround might be all you need though :)

Bron.


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