On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 19:30:22 +0200 Sami Ketola <sami.ket...@dovecot.fi> wrote:
> > On 3 Nov 2017, at 18.23, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw...@ithnet.com> > > wrote: Hello Aki, > > > > let me explain this a bit more. We do not intend to use only some copied > > binary. Of course we would do a full installation of dovecot and > > pidgeonhole, only we question if it is necessary to start the dovecot > > init-file bringing up the dovecot imap/imap-login/pop/pop-login/auth and > > other processes. Indeed we have virtual users. > > > While it might be possible to disable all the other services except master I > must ask why? How would the users be accessing their mails then? > > Sami Hello Sami, you did not read my first post. We are talking about a multihost installation where one host does SMTP and LDA, and the other does POP and IMAP (with dovecot). Now we want to use dovecot-lda for the local delivery _on the SMTP host_. So there is no need for open POP or IMAP ports and the corresponding running services. -- Regards, Stephan