dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

[Aki Tuomi]

> On November 3, 2017 at 1:50 PM Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> we have a setup where SMTP/LDA and POP3/IMAP are on different physical hosts.
> They share the mail data via an external storage.
> Now we would like to use dovecot-lda on the smtp host, so we wonder if the
> lda binary works without starting dovecot from init. As there will be no
> POP3/IMAP usage on this host it seems unnecessary. Nevertheless we cannot
> judge if it is still needed for lda&sieve to work.
> Your opinion?
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Stephan

dovecot-lda does not work without dovecot unless you have physical users and you run the binary as target user. with virtual users it's virtually impossible to achieve.

Aki