On 02/11/2020 20:17, R. Diez wrote: > Hi all: > > I am learning Dovecot step by step. I have enabled the Submission > Server, in the hope that I would not need to learn other MTAs like > Postfix. the submission server is a proxy in front of an MTA. You can't avoid having an MTA somewhere in your solution.
https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/submission_server/ > > The Submission Server is very comfortable: it picks up the existing > Dovecot configuration, so that you do not need to configure any user > authentication separately. It is working fine on my test setup. > > My first thought was that, if the recipient is a local mailbox, the > Submission Server would not need to relay the message to any external > SMTP server, as it could just deliver it locally. After all, it is > running on the same Dovecot. what should it do with the non local messages or local messages directly at aliases? John > > But it cannot do that, can it? Is there a work-around? I am still > hoping that the mail server still works locally if the Internet > connection fails. But I would need to learn some Postfix magic for > that, would I? > > Thanks in advance, > rdiez
