[Dovecot] trying to enable features

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Ray wrote:
>
> Please correct me where I'm wrong.
> according to my understanding: When the server receives an email, dovecot pop
> server makes connection with the outside world, [cut]

Dovecot's POP3 server waits for a user to connect to it to retrieve mails 
that are already stored somewhere. In your case, probably by Postfix 
receiving the mail via SMTP, then delivering it via Procmail (not sure on 
that last part). You could optionally use Dovecot's 'deliver' to do that 
last step, but Dovecot still doesn't make any connection for incoming 
mail. That part's handled by Postfix (in your case).

There's plenty of documentation in the wiki about all this.

**** This should clear up the roles of dovecot/etc. ****
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview

In particular, try this highlighting, and note the two highlights:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview?highlight=%28not+responsible%29

Dovecot's 'deliver':
http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA
http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix

Best,
Ben