how to run dovecot imap on separate server from postfix?

[Robert Fantini]

OK I got delivery from postfix to lmtp working  ,

 by changing from unix_listener  to inet_listener .


Reindl  wrote  "don't open the port for any other machine as the postfix
server"
  I see that is important..   I assume that just a firewall setting?  Or
does the 'address'  line in inet_listener lmtp  have something to do with
it?





On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
wrote:

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> Am 18.02.2015 um 18:20 schrieb Reindl Harald:
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>> Am 18.02.2015 um 18:15 schrieb Robert Fantini:
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>>> I'm trying to figure out the exact line to put to /etc/postfix/main.cf
>>>
>>> for local lmtp deliver we use:
>>> mailbox_transport = *lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp*
>>>
>>> for remote  it is supposed to be:* lmtp:host:port*
>>>
>>> yet at the remote  lmtp does not use ports.  UNIX domain sockets are used
>>> instead
>>>
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>> so just configure dovecot lmtpd to listen on a TCP port, port 24 is
>> reserved for that - and don't open the port for any other machine as the
>> postfix server
>>
>> [harry at srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/services | grep -i lmtp
>> lmtp            24/tcp                          # LMTP Mail Delivery
>> lmtp            24/udp                          # LMTP Mail Delivery
>>
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> and since i answered the same question yet on the postfix list
>
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP
> http://www.postfix.org/lmtp.8.html
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