Hello again Reindl Harald I always thought Wietse Venema was only as smart as me ;-)
seriously thank you for the help. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > 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 >>> >> >
