Hi,
Just trying to consolidate my knowledge of Dovecot and I want to understand various things rather than just key out lines of config in dovecot.conf with the hope of it working.
What I wanted to clarify is my understanding the "socket listen" section of the config file. From my limited understanding, this section details how other processes can access the userdb defined in Dovecot. The master socket is used for "internal" processes which is mainly dovecot-lda so that when Dovecot receives mail it knows where to deliver it and client is defined for "external" processes, for example Postfix who would use the info to determine if a user existed. Would you say this is a fair (albeit) dumbed down!!) synopsis of sockets and their purpose?
Thanks in advance!
Tim