Quoting Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com:
On 17/01/2022 20:56 Mike alaskabarsalou@gmail.com wrote:
Was recently configuring lmtp to listen in the postfix spool for mail.
I set the socket as suggested in the documentation, however, when I look at what sockets were created there was an additional one for dovecot.
Since I made the change, my expectation would have been just the one that I set up.
I doubt it impacts it negatively, but I wanted to understand if I configured things correctly or not.
Thanks.
Mike
Can you provide any details on what you did, what you expected, and
what you actually observed?Aki
Sure. I used the documentation to setup lmtp from here:
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/howto/postfix_dovecot_lmtp/
When issuing this command:
ss -lxn | grep lmtp
And I get:
u_str LISTEN 0 100
private/lmtp 64917 * 0
u_str LISTEN 0 100
/var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp 63578 * 0
u_str LISTEN 0 100
/var/run/dovecot/lmtp 63575 * 0
When I expect:
u_str LISTEN 0 100
private/lmtp 64917 * 0
u_str LISTEN 0 100
/var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp 63578 * 0
The first entry I believe belongs to postfix. The second one is the one I set as above. The third seems to be an extra.
I have an Ubuntu setup if that matters.
Again, I don't think it is an issue. Everything seems to work, just
thought it makes sense to understand what is going on.
Mike