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[John Stoffel]

>>>>> "David" == David Favor <david at davidfavor.com> writes:

David> At one point seems like I found a write up in the Dovecot docs
David> about having Dovecot directly listen on port 25 using
David> Opportunistic TLS along with port 587 authentication, so only
David> Dovecot was required to handle incoming email.

David> Said another way, no requirement for Sendmail, or Postfix or
David> EXIM.

Why is this such a problem?  Dovecot and postfix work together really
well.  You *don't* want submission on port 25 unless you do
authentication, etc.  But port 25 is for just plain SMTP.  Especially
if this host is exposed on the internet, it's not a smart thing to
do. 

David> Just straight up Dovecot.

Dovecot does IMAP well.  It's not a mail server.  

Can you explain more of what you're trying to do here?  And why you
think this is a good idea?

Postfix isn't hard to setup and works really well.

John