14 May
2021
14 May
'21
12:42 p.m.
Many thanks, Jeff. Online documentation is not clear. Everything implies both are necessary.
-----Original Message----- From: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek jeff.sipek@open-xchange.com Date: Friday, May 14, 2021 at 08:40 To: Daniel White daniel.e.white@nasa.gov Cc: "dovecot@dovecot.org" dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Separating Dovecot and Postfix
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:37:15 +0000, White, Daniel E. (GSFC-770.0)[NICS] wrote:
> I am struggling to update a very old set of mail servers.
> Some are supposed to be relays (MTAs by my understanding) while others are
> where the mailboxes live (MDA)
>
> In rebuilding the MDA servers, is postfix required on the same server or
> can dovecot connect to postfix on a separate MTA server ? The old MDAs
> have both installed, but the config files are a mess.
They can live on different servers. I have two - one with postfix and
mailman, and a second one with dovecot. Postfix delivers mail to dovecot
via lmtp.
Jeff.