Re: [Dovecot] systemd socket and service

On 22.2.2011, at 12.17, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:

Hello. I'm use systemd and have some questions:

1. Why dovecot.socket contains only imap ListenStream?

You mean why doesn't it contain POP3? I guess mainly because that's how it was submitted to me and I didn't think of it. Also now that I do think about it, I'm still not sure if it should contain POP3 by default. Even Dovecot's on example-config doesn't enable POP3 by default.

2. Does dovecot.service required to use dovecot lmtp, or it may be stoppped (i not often check my mails via client, but have many incoming mails some time)

I don't understand. If you want LMTP enabled, you also need to list its socket to dovecot.socket. LMTP is executed in a similar way to IMAP/POP3. (If you want LMTP via UNIX socket, I don't really know the answer to that. Does systemd support listening on UNIX sockets? Maybe it requires patching Dovecot more.)