Postfix is the mail transport agent. it is what does the sending and recieving of mail messages via SMTP protocol. dbmail-lmtp (or dbmail-smtp) is how you get from postfix to dbmail to use an imap or pop3 client.
Hope that helps. On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 09:08 +0000, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > Hi friends > > I am still a novice. > > I am shifting from postfix to postfix/dbmail. > > I hv installed dbmail-2.0.7 and postfix 2.2.5 (compiled with sasl2). > > Why should I have both posftfix waiting on port 25 and dbmail-lmtp > waiting on port 24? > > Should'nt dbmail-lmtp take over fully? > > Also postfix responds to smtp commands and accepts mails > , but lmtp doesnt. > > #telnet localhost 24 gets struck. > > regards > > Nataraj > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > Dbmail@dbmail.org > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
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