I am trying to figure out if I need avahi on my mail server. I see that POP3 and IMAP are services that Avahi can advertise/discover. Does Dovecot work with Avahi and how do you get POP3 and IMAP advertised? And perhaps more importantly, what clients look for mail services this way? I can't find any information on this in the Dovecot documentation ot googling. Perhaps my search fu is low this year. thank you
Am 01.01.2013 17:07, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:> I am trying to figure out if I need avahi on my mail server. I see that POP3 and IMAP are services that Avahi can > advertise/discover. Does Dovecot work with Avahi and how do you get POP3 and IMAP advertised? > > And perhaps more importantly, what clients look for mail services this way?avahi does NOT get routed to internet since most clienst are not in the private network why would someone advertise mail-services via avahi? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 261 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20130101/d74d9230/attachment-0004.bin>
On 01/01/2013 11:13 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:> > Am 01.01.2013 17:07, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >> I am trying to figure out if I need avahi on my mail server. I see that POP3 and IMAP are services that Avahi can >> advertise/discover. Does Dovecot work with Avahi and how do you get POP3 and IMAP advertised? >> >> And perhaps more importantly, what clients look for mail services this way? > avahi does NOT get routed to internet > > since most clienst are not in the private network why would > someone advertise mail-services via avahi?For clients on your local net. Why are the services POP3 and IMAP in the Avahi database? try ahavi-browse -b Say a small business is running a local mail server, perhaps using fetchmail to get their gmail accounts and such. And they have a bunch of MACs in the office. How were mail clients discovering the local mail server? Apple users like automagic stuff. Note I have NOT used, and rarely agreed to support Apple systems since the Lisa.
On 01/01/2013 12:01 PM, Ben Morrow wrote:> At 5PM +0100 on 1/01/13 you (Tom Hendrikx) wrote: >> If you want to advertise your mail config for easy setup over the >> internet, take a look at: http://www.automx.org/ > I thought most gooey mail clients supported RFC 6186 nowadays?Thunderbird does. Much more reasonable approach over Avahi which is only for those Apple users on the local net anyway ;)
Robert Moskowitz skrev den 2013-01-01 17:07:> I can't find any information on this in the Dovecot documentation ot > googling. Perhaps my search fu is low this year.google "avahi dns srv record" also search for zerroconf case is still what clients use it