Installation Question: Is a web server required ?

[White, Daniel E. (GSFC-770.0)[NICS]]

Thanks.
That is what we want.  Just mail, no extras

-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot <dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org> on behalf of Heiko Schlittermann <hs at schlittermann.de>
Organization: schlittermann -- internet & unix support
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 13:36
To: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Installation Question: Is a web server required ?

    White, Daniel E. (GSFC-770.0)[NICS] <daniel.e.white at nasa.gov> (Mi 28 Apr 2021 19:28:41 CEST):
    > Can Dovecot be installed with Postfix and without being behind a web server ?
    Yes.

    > I want a mail service that can only be accessed by POP3(s)/IMAP(s) and not by a web UI.
    Dovecot is a pure POP3/IMAP server. No Web-UI is required/provided.

    (I think, there are other "modules" planned or working already, like
    calendar or such. But maybe I'm confusing this with alternative mail
    access server software.)

    -- 
    Heiko