[Dovecot] feature question: local delivery from SMTP
Does Dovecot really need a separate MTA for inbound mail? Or can it receive SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do? What about spam/virus filtering in that case?
-- Phil Howard KA9WGN - ka9wgn@gmail.com
On Qua, 20 Jan 2010, Phil Howard wrote:
Does Dovecot really need a separate MTA for inbound mail? Or can it receive SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do? What about spam/virus filtering in that case?
Dovecot does not receive mails. It only serves them to users via IMAP or POP3.
So, yes, you need a program like exim or postfix.
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Phil Howard wrote:
Does Dovecot really need a separate MTA for inbound mail?
Why do you thing it might need?
Or can it receive SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do? What about spam/virus filtering in that case?
Dovecot has nothing to do with smtp. You need MTA like postfix or exim to deliver mail to mbox/maildir. Then dovecot can show those mailboxes to client.
-- Veiko
Veiko Kukk escreveu:
Or can it receive SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do? What about spam/virus filtering in that case?
Dovecot has nothing to do with smtp. You need MTA like postfix or exim to deliver mail to mbox/maildir. Then dovecot can show those mailboxes to client.
just a small correction .... dovecot has its own delivery agent, which means it (dovecot) can handle the 'deliver mail to maildir' part. I'm not sure about mailbox, but maildir i'm sure dovecot delivery agent can handle.
anyway, you'll still need an MTA to collect data from the network (via SMTP) and then forward it to dovecot delivery agent.
dovecot is not an MTA so it cannot talk SMTP.--
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My SPAMTRAP, do not email itI saw something in the documentation called LDA that looked like it was accepting some kind of connection and delivering mail into mailboxes.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Veiko Kukk veiko.kukk@ekp.ee wrote:
Phil Howard wrote:
Does Dovecot really need a separate MTA for inbound mail?
Why do you thing it might need?
Or can it receive
SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do? What about spam/virus filtering in that case?
Dovecot has nothing to do with smtp. You need MTA like postfix or exim to deliver mail to mbox/maildir. Then dovecot can show those mailboxes to client.
-- Veiko
-- Phil Howard KA9WGN - ka9wgn@gmail.com
Mail client interacts with MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim, etc) and then MTA 'calls' the delivery agent (LDA, some MTA, etc) to deliver the mail to mailboxes. Common mail clients do not interact with delivery agent directly, even it's inbound. So yes, you need MTA for inbound mail.
HTH Joseph
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Phil Howard ka9wgn@gmail.com wrote:
I saw something in the documentation called LDA that looked like it was accepting some kind of connection and delivering mail into mailboxes.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Veiko Kukk veiko.kukk@ekp.ee wrote:
Phil Howard wrote:
Does Dovecot really need a separate MTA for inbound mail?
Why do you thing it might need?
Or can it receive
SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do? What about spam/virus filtering in that case?
Dovecot has nothing to do with smtp. You need MTA like postfix or exim to deliver mail to mbox/maildir. Then dovecot can show those mailboxes to client.
-- Veiko
-- Phil Howard KA9WGN - ka9wgn@gmail.com
Then I guess I will need to let Postfix do the delivery so it can be aware of what users exist and not, to be sure it will do all rejections when the SMTP MX connection is still up to let it reject back over that connection. So Dovecot would just be the IMAP daemon, and some webmail program used on top of that.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Joseph Yee joseph.yee@gmail.com wrote:
Mail client interacts with MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim, etc) and then MTA 'calls' the delivery agent (LDA, some MTA, etc) to deliver the mail to mailboxes. Common mail clients do not interact with delivery agent directly, even it's inbound. So yes, you need MTA for inbound mail.
HTH Joseph
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Phil Howard ka9wgn@gmail.com wrote:
I saw something in the documentation called LDA that looked like it was accepting some kind of connection and delivering mail into mailboxes.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Veiko Kukk veiko.kukk@ekp.ee wrote:
Phil Howard wrote:
Does Dovecot really need a separate MTA for inbound mail?
Why do you thing it might need?
Or can it receive
SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do? What about spam/virus filtering in that case?
Dovecot has nothing to do with smtp. You need MTA like postfix or exim to deliver mail to mbox/maildir. Then dovecot can show those mailboxes to client.
-- Veiko
-- Phil Howard KA9WGN - ka9wgn@gmail.com
-- Phil Howard KA9WGN - ka9wgn@gmail.com
On 1/22/2010 8:20 PM, Phil Howard wrote:
Then I guess I will need to let Postfix do the delivery so it can be aware of what users exist and not, to be sure it will do all rejections when the SMTP MX connection is still up to let it reject back over that connection. So Dovecot would just be the IMAP daemon, and some webmail program used on top of that.
Best would be to use the dovecot LDA, but call it from postfix...
And please stop top posting...
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Charles
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Charles Marcus
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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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Joseph Yee
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Leonardo Rodrigues
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Phil Howard
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Veiko Kukk