I am setting up a new system that will be using Dovecot with Postifx. I am planning on using LMTP. I read the wiki and and found the settings I need to make in Dovecot and the Postfix main.cf file. However, I saw nothing about the Postfix master.cf file. Do I need to make and changes to it also?

Thanks

-- Jerry

There are several ways of telling postfix to use lmtp to deliver to dovecot. I went with a method that was setting just the *_transport variable in main.cf to a unix pipe, so I didn't need to setup a service in master.cf.

Here are two methods (for mailbox, not virtual mailbox), that show that depending on what you put in main.cf, you may or may not need to update master.cf

=== method 1

main.cf

mailbox_transport=dovecot dovecot_destination_recipient_limit=1

master.cf

dovecot unix – n n – – pipe flags=DRhu user=mail:mail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f ${sender} -d ${recipient}

=== method 2

main.cf

mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp

HTH,

Ken