On 17/12/2025 20:22 EET onyeibo via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
Thanks Aki,
I really appreciate your suggestions towards resolving the anomaly.
Aki wrote: This is unfortunate known issue, can at the moment I can recommend either using LMTP (which is greatly preferred over lda), or you can try
!try_include /etc/dovecot/ssl.conf
I have settled for the highly recommended LMTP already. It remains to pursue its setup to a logical conclusion. Do you have any idea what I omitted or misconfigured? What is preventing the handover from postfix to dovecot? Should I restore the entry for dovecot in /etc/postfix/master.cf (perhaps with an executable pointing to lmtp instead)?
-- Onyeibo
Hard to say without more infromation...
usually you setup lmtp like:
service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { port = 24 } }
and put in postfix
virtual_transport = lmtp:inet:127.0.0.1:24
or
relay_transport = lmtp:inet:127.0.0.1:24
or you can unix socket, but i prefer tcp to keep them separate.
Aki