It seemed weird to me that preStart on postfix was used to generate
files not needed directly by postfix and for the self-signed
certificate which is also needed by dovecot. nginx.service was also
used as a proxy for when ACME certificate generation was done.
So I have created mailserver-certificates.target for when certificates
are available for other services. For self-signed that means that a
new oneshot service called mailserver-selfsigned-certificate has been
run. And for ACME this means that the target
acme-selfsigned-certificates has been reached (which is when acme has
created the self-signed certificates used before the actual
certificates provided by LetsEncrypt are created). This setup has the
added bonus that if you want to run a service to provide your own
certificates you can set that to run before
mailserver-certificates.target.
DH Parameters are only needed by dovecot so generation of that file has
been moved to the dovecot2 preStart.
And lastly the only remaining reason to for dovecot to start before
postfix was that the auth and lmtp sockets where located in a directory
created by postfix. But since they could just as well be located in
/run/dovecot2 as long as postfix has access to them I have moved them
there.
The extern test used shell scripting for file writing and ip lookup
which Nix and make-test.nix can do. I have also replaced the 5 second
sleep with the check for completion of queue processing on server.
Brian OlsenandRuben Maher