[Dovecot] Running just part of dovecot

Joshua Goodall joshua at roughtrade.net
Mon Sep 18 11:36:55 EEST 2006


On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:10:12PM -0400, Marshal Newrock wrote:
> I'm currently setting up a large mail system, with different services
> split out onto different machines.  What I want is this:
> 
> machine1: dovecot smtp auth, no pop/imap
> machine2: dovecot lda, no pop/imap
> machine3: pop/imap, nothing else
> 
> machine3 is obviously not the issue.  Is there a way to run machine1
> and machine2 with just their respective services, but no pop/imap?

I recall Dovecot 1.0b7 spat the dummy when we tried to run it without
pop3/imap services, for SMTP auth.  I was a bit bogged down at the time,
so we just configured it to run pop3, but listen on localhost only.

i.e. in dovecot.conf:

protocols = pop3
...
protocol pop3 {
	listen = 127.0.0.1:110
	...
}

Might be worth revisiting so we can do protocols = none.

JG

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Josh "Koshua" Goodall                      "as modern as tomorrow afternoon"
joshua at roughtrade.net                                       - FW109


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