you could try setting protocols = in config file to disable (most) listeners. ---Aki TuomiDovecot oy -------- Original message --------From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml@ithnet.com> Date: 03/11/2017 19:39 (GMT+02:00) To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org> Subject: Re: dovecot-lda without starting dovecot? On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 19:30:22 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ketola@dovecot.fi> wrote:
On 3 Nov 2017, at 18.23, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml@ithnet.com> wrote: Hello Aki,
let me explain this a bit more. We do not intend to use only some copied binary. Of course we would do a full installation of dovecot and pidgeonhole, only we question if it is necessary to start the dovecot init-file bringing up the dovecot imap/imap-login/pop/pop-login/auth and other processes. Indeed we have virtual users.
While it might be possible to disable all the other services except master I must ask why? How would the users be accessing their mails then?
Sami
Hello Sami,
you did not read my first post. We are talking about a multihost installation where one host does SMTP and LDA, and the other does POP and IMAP (with dovecot). Now we want to use dovecot-lda for the local delivery _on the SMTP host_. So there is no need for open POP or IMAP ports and the corresponding running services.
-- Regards, Stephan