[EXTERNAL] Re: Separating Dovecot and Postfix
White, Daniel E. (GSFC-770.0)[NICS]
daniel.e.white at nasa.gov
Fri May 14 15:42:33 EEST 2021
Many thanks, Jeff.
Online documentation is not clear. Everything implies both are necessary.
-----Original Message-----
From: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeff.sipek at open-xchange.com>
Date: Friday, May 14, 2021 at 08:40
To: Daniel White <daniel.e.white at nasa.gov>
Cc: "dovecot at dovecot.org" <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Separating Dovecot and Postfix
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:37:15 +0000, White, Daniel E. (GSFC-770.0)[NICS] wrote:
> I am struggling to update a very old set of mail servers.
> Some are supposed to be relays (MTAs by my understanding) while others are
> where the mailboxes live (MDA)
>
> In rebuilding the MDA servers, is postfix required on the same server or
> can dovecot connect to postfix on a separate MTA server ? The old MDAs
> have both installed, but the config files are a mess.
They can live on different servers. I have two - one with postfix and
mailman, and a second one with dovecot. Postfix delivers mail to dovecot
via lmtp.
Jeff.
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