What I understand Postfix is a smtp server, it will also receive emails.
What I need is, postfix to receive emails and my component will process those 
emails, i don't need to receive emails from my postfix server.

-Sumit

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] 
On Behalf Of Patrick Ben Koetter
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 2:18 PM
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: How to receive email on my postfix server

* Arora, Sumit <sumit.ar...@hp.com>:
> I have some doubt in receiving email.

Postfix is a SMTP server. It transports (read: sends) messages.
If you want to receive messages you need an IMAP or POP server such as
Dovecot, Courier, Cyrus IMAP or ...

p...@rick



> 
> What I understand I just need one domain name associated with my server ip 
> address, 
> and I need to enter this domain in postfix configuration. That's it.
> 
> I don't need to send emails from this server.
> 
> I guess that is all I need, can anybody confirm it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sumit Arora

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