On 05-18-2021 3:36 pm, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote:
Before writing my previous mail, I read exactly the same documentation
as
you linked above and for me it says something exactly opposite: Dovecot
submission service needs real MTA as a "backend" to relay mail onto the
Internet. By itself it can only send mail to that preconfigured backend
MTA.
It may be on a different server, but it needs to be available:
"The Dovecot SMTP submission service directly proxies the mail
transaction
to the SMTP relay configured with the following settings:"
You are correct. I thought it didn't need postfix as when i set this up
it worked. What i didn't realize at the time which i understand trying
to replicate it, is that dovecot was still using postfix smtp:25 to
deliver out going emails sent to dovecot submission. I assumed since
postfix submission:587 was disabled dovecot was sending direct to the
internet. My mistake.
