[Dovecot] Running mailfront under dovecot2.x service supervision

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 19.04.2011 14:19, schrieb Uffe Jakobsen:
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> Robert Schetterer wrote:
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>> i ve got confused, dovecot is no smtp server
>> what are you trying to goal ?
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> Correct dovecot is not an smtp server.
> My goal is what I wrote in the initial email - but I try to explain in other
> words.
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> Dovecot2.0.x has the ability to setup somewhat generic supervised services
> ala daemontools services if you know that tool.
> Dovecot uses these services internally to wrap an ordinary imap session into
> an ssl session.
> And that is exactly what I would like to do with my mailfront session - wrap
> it into a ssl session using the generic service setup present in dovecot
> 2.0.x
> 
> As far as I can see - the services that you define inside dovecot.conf does
> not have to relate to imap at all and since smtp and imap go hand in hand in
> order to have a fully working email setup - then why not have dovecot
> control all the services ?
> 
> /Uffe
> 

understand , but this is a "must Timo response" i guess

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MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria