dovecot-lda without starting dovecot?

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 01:57:31 +0200
Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> wrote:

> >> 
> >> While it might be possible to disable all the other services except
> >> master I must ask why? How would the users be accessing their mails then?
> >> 
> >> Sami  
> > 
> > Hello Sami,
> > 
> > you did not read my first post. We are talking about a multihost
> > installation where one host does SMTP and LDA, and the other does POP and
> > IMAP (with dovecot). Now we want to use dovecot-lda for the local delivery
> > _on the SMTP host_. So there is no need for open POP or IMAP ports and the
> > corresponding running services.   
> 
> Again that does not answer my question why? Why do you want all the locking
> problems and multi-access problems that come with setup like that? What is
> the actual problem that you are trying to solve?
> 
> Sami

Really, I can hardly believe you don't now large loadbalancing ISP setups with
multiple nodes per single service ...?
The simple problem: massive numbers of emails

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Regards,
Stephan