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? -- Phil Howard KA9WGN - ka9wgn at gmail.com
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
2010-Jan-21 14:55 UTC
[Dovecot] feature question: local delivery from SMTP
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, yes, you need a program like exim or postfix. -- BOFH excuse #424: operation failed because: there is no message for this error (#1014) Eduardo M KALINOWSKI eduardo at kalinowski.com.br
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 to deliver mail to mbox/maildir. Then dovecot can show those mailboxes to client. -- Veiko
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 <veiko.kukk at ekp.ee> wrote:> 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 to > deliver mail to mbox/maildir. Then dovecot can show those mailboxes to > client. > > -- > Veiko > >-- Phil Howard KA9WGN - ka9wgn at gmail.com