[Pkg-exim4-users] need to restart exim4 after ssl/tls certs renewed?

[Andreas Metzler]

Klaus Maria Pfeiffer <kmp+pkg-exim4-users at kmp.or.at> wrote:
> do I need to restart exim4 after the SSL/TLS certificates by Let's
> Encrypt got renewed? or will also a reload do?

> seems to be a reload is already kind of restart:
> 2015-12-30 13:32:28 pid 13135: SIGHUP received: re-exec daemon
> 2015-12-30 13:32:29 exim 4.84 daemon started: pid=13135, -q5m, listening
> for SMTP on port 25 (IPv6 and IPv4) port 587 (IPv6 and IPv4) and for
> SMTPS on port 465 (IPv6 and IPv4)

Hello

I am pretty sure that neither restart nor HUP should be necessary. How
about simply running a test?

gnutls-cli -p 25 --starttls-proto=smtp server.name

after refreshing the cert should show whether the new cert has been
picked up.

cu Andreas

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