execve(/usr/bin/sieve-test) failed: Argument list too long

[Patrick Cernko]

Hi Dovecot developers,




In our setup, ssl_ca is set to
ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt


I found a workaround for the problem by setting
ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/backendCAs.pem


Best,
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Patrick Cernko <pcer...@mpi-klsb.mpg.de> +49 681 9325 5815
Joint Administration: Information Services and Technology
Max-Planck-Institute fuer Informatik & Softwaresysteme

while debugging the above error message from sieve-test, I found out, that the content of directive ssl_ca is added as env var SSL_CA by doveconf on execve and sieve-test now uses doveconf. on our director servers. We have backend servers with certificates signed by two different CAs and to avoid problems if a backend switches to a different CA, I decided to allow all "known" CAs. The corresponding env var SSL_CA has more than 230500 bytes, which causes execve to fail with error E2BIG. Where this file contains only the two CAs used atm. However I would like to request a fix for this issue as others might also want to have all "known" CAs set for dovecot director backend connections.

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