On Saturday 13 October 2007 4:23:40 pm Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Ray wrote: > > Please correct me where I'm wrong. > > according to my understanding: When the server receives an email, dovecot > > pop server makes connection with the outside world, [cut] > > Dovecot's POP3 server waits for a user to connect to it to retrieve mails > that are already stored somewhere. In your case, probably by Postfix > receiving the mail via SMTP, then delivering it via Procmail (not sure on > that last part). You could optionally use Dovecot's 'deliver' to do that > last step, but Dovecot still doesn't make any connection for incoming > mail. That part's handled by Postfix (in your case). > > There's plenty of documentation in the wiki about all this. > > **** This should clear up the roles of dovecot/etc. **** > http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview > > In particular, try this highlighting, and note the two highlights: > http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview?highlight=%28not+responsible%29 > > Dovecot's 'deliver': > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix > > Best, > Ben
Thanks, I understand better now. Ray
