OK I got delivery from postfix to lmtp working , by changing from unix_listener to inet_listener .
Reindl wrote "don't open the port for any other machine as the postfix server" I see that is important.. I assume that just a firewall setting? Or does the 'address' line in inet_listener lmtp have something to do with it? On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Reindl Harald <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 18.02.2015 um 18:20 schrieb Reindl Harald: > > >> Am 18.02.2015 um 18:15 schrieb Robert Fantini: >> >>> I'm trying to figure out the exact line to put to /etc/postfix/main.cf >>> >>> for local lmtp deliver we use: >>> mailbox_transport = *lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp* >>> >>> for remote it is supposed to be:* lmtp:host:port* >>> >>> yet at the remote lmtp does not use ports. UNIX domain sockets are used >>> instead >>> >> >> so just configure dovecot lmtpd to listen on a TCP port, port 24 is >> reserved for that - and don't open the port for any other machine as the >> postfix server >> >> [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/services | grep -i lmtp >> lmtp 24/tcp # LMTP Mail Delivery >> lmtp 24/udp # LMTP Mail Delivery >> > > and since i answered the same question yet on the postfix list > > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP > http://www.postfix.org/lmtp.8.html > >
