Disable authentication for submission service

dovecot at ptld.com dovecot at ptld.com
Wed Jul 28 21:36:34 EEST 2021


> Are you sure?  I know that postfix can use the same backend database
> for authentication as dovecot, and dovecot can be the master, but 
> dovecot
> does NOT listen on port 25 or 587 at all, those are all just used by
> Postfix.

Not true anymore. Dovecot added a submission service in a recent 
version.
Dovecot can listen on 587, take the email, and pass it on to postfix to 
then go out to the world.

https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/submission_server/



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