[Dovecot] Mutually exclusive Exim setup instructions

[Scott Silva]

on 6-11-2008 4:10 PM cam at ellisonpsychology.ca spake the following:
>> The correct way has to be one or the other:
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim
>>
>> are mutually exclusive with
>>
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/DebianStable
>>
>> It appears that exim can either call dovecot's LDA or make the delivery
>> itself.  There may
>> be good reasons to do it one way or the other.
> 
> Sorry to be diving into this issue so late, but I just noticed this email.
>  You may be able to answer a question I have.  At the moment, I use Exim
> and Dovecot, and have things set up to use imapd, using Dovecot as the
> LDA.  It worked fine for a while, but with upgrades I am now unable to
> send email out using Thunderbird (for example - this applies to KMail and
> Sylpheed as well).  Exim treats it as a relay, and bans it.  Curiously,
> using these from another machine works fine.  Also fine is sending mail
> internally, from a cron job for example, or to external addresses from my
> website.
> 
> It seems that the router setting in Exim is the problem, and the better
> solution is to use Exim as the LDA, but if one does not use Dovecot as the
> LDA, what's the point of having it?  I installed it originally to be able
> to use Squirrelmail when I'm on the road.  Now I'm using it all the time.
> 
> What am I missing here?
> 
Dovecot is not just an LDA, it also serves POP3(S) and IMAP(S) services.. The 
benefit of using dovecot for the LDA is to keep the indexes and other files 
updated. I am using dovecot on CentOS, with procmail as the LDA, and 
everything still works fine.
But you can only have one LDA ( or at least should only use one), so those 
docs would be mutually exclusive.

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