how to run dovecot imap on separate server from postfix?

[Robert Fantini]

Hello again Reindl Harald

  I always thought Wietse Venema was only as smart as me ;-)

 seriously thank you for the help.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
wrote:

>
> Am 17.02.2015 um 22:51 schrieb Robert Fantini:
>
>> I want to make sure that the postfix delivery does not give up trying to
>> get the email delivered when the  lmtp host is not reachable.      I do
>> not
>> just want to assume that the default settings are correct for us.
>>
>> Are there  postfix or other settings which can be checked and adjusted?
>>
>
> postfix was *not* written by a moron and hence in any case any mail in the
> queue will be re-tried until "maximal_queue_lifetime" is reached
>
> there is no difference if lmtp is a unix socket or on the network because
> nobody can say for sure that the lmtpd on localhost is reachable 365/7/24
> and hence any sane MTA handles errors properly
>
>
>  On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Am 17.02.2015 um 22:29 schrieb Robert Fantini:
>>>
>>>     we are using version 2.2.13 on debian.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>    currently imap  runs on the same system as  postfix , spamassassin
>>>> and
>>>> other mail related software.
>>>>
>>>>    I'd like to move dovecot imapd  and mail storage  to its own system.
>>>>
>>>>    I've search google and wiki and could not see how to do so.
>>>>
>>>>    could someone please point me in the direction to that done?  I like
>>>> reading documentation..
>>>>
>>>> here is more info on our set up:
>>>>
>>>> postfix:
>>>> # grep dovecot /etc/postfix/*
>>>> /etc/postfix/main.cf:mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp
>>>> /etc/postfix/main.cf:smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
>>>>
>>>>
>>> just configure postfix to use "lmtp:host:port" of the dovecot machine
>>>
>>
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