Re: how to run dovecot imap on separate server from postfix?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 17.02.2015 um 22:51 schrieb Robert Fantini:

I want to make sure that the postfix delivery does not give up trying to
get the email delivered when the  lmtp host is not reachable.      I do not
just want to assume that the default settings are correct for us.

Are there  postfix or other settings which can be checked and adjusted?

postfix was *not* written by a moron and hence in any case any mail in the queue will be re-tried until "maximal_queue_lifetime" is reached there is no difference if lmtp is a unix socket or on the network because nobody can say for sure that the lmtpd on localhost is reachable 365/7/24 and hence any sane MTA handles errors properly

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net>
wrote:

Am 17.02.2015 um 22:29 schrieb Robert Fantini:

    we are using version 2.2.13 on debian.

   currently imap  runs on the same system as  postfix , spamassassin and
other mail related software.

   I'd like to move dovecot imapd  and mail storage  to its own system.

   I've search google and wiki and could not see how to do so.

   could someone please point me in the direction to that done?  I like
reading documentation..

here is more info on our set up:

postfix:
# grep dovecot /etc/postfix/*
/etc/postfix/main.cf:mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp
/etc/postfix/main.cf:smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot

just configure postfix to use "lmtp:host:port" of the dovecot machine

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