The correct way has to be one or the other:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim
are mutually exclusive with
http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/DebianStable
It appears that exim can either call dovecot's LDA or make the delivery itself. There may be good reasons to do it one way or the other.
Sorry to be diving into this issue so late, but I just noticed this email. You may be able to answer a question I have. At the moment, I use Exim and Dovecot, and have things set up to use imapd, using Dovecot as the LDA. It worked fine for a while, but with upgrades I am now unable to send email out using Thunderbird (for example - this applies to KMail and Sylpheed as well). Exim treats it as a relay, and bans it. Curiously, using these from another machine works fine. Also fine is sending mail internally, from a cron job for example, or to external addresses from my website.
It seems that the router setting in Exim is the problem, and the better solution is to use Exim as the LDA, but if one does not use Dovecot as the LDA, what's the point of having it? I installed it originally to be able to use Squirrelmail when I'm on the road. Now I'm using it all the time.
What am I missing here?
Cheers
Cam
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