On 1/22/2010 8:20 PM, Phil Howard wrote:
> Then I guess I will need to let Postfix do the delivery so it can be aware
> of what users exist and not, to be sure it will do all rejections when the
> SMTP MX connection is still up to let it reject back over that connection.
> So Dovecot would just be
Then I guess I will need to let Postfix do the delivery so it can be aware
of what users exist and not, to be sure it will do all rejections when the
SMTP MX connection is still up to let it reject back over that connection.
So Dovecot would just be the IMAP daemon, and some webmail program used on
Mail client interacts with MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim, etc) and then
MTA 'calls' the delivery agent (LDA, some MTA, etc) to deliver the
mail to mailboxes. Common mail clients do not interact with delivery
agent directly, even it's inbound. So yes, you need MTA for inbound
mail.
HTH
Joseph
On F
I saw something in the documentation called LDA that looked like it was
accepting some kind of connection and delivering mail into mailboxes.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Veiko Kukk wrote:
> Phil Howard wrote:
>
>> Does Dovecot really need a separate MTA for inbound mail?
>>
>
> Why do you t
Veiko Kukk escreveu:
Or can it receive
SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do? What about spam/virus
filtering in that case?
Dovecot has nothing to do with smtp. You need MTA like postfix or exim
to deliver mail to mbox/maildir. Then dovecot can show those mailboxes
to client.
Phil Howard wrote:
Does Dovecot really need a separate MTA for inbound mail?
Why do you thing it might need?
Or can it receive
SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do? What about spam/virus
filtering in that case?
Dovecot has nothing to do with smtp. You need MTA like postfix or exim
On Qua, 20 Jan 2010, Phil Howard wrote:
Does Dovecot really need a separate MTA for inbound mail? Or can it receive
SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do? What about spam/virus
filtering in that case?
Dovecot does not receive mails. It only serves them to users via IMAP or POP3.
So,
