Many thanks, Jeff. Online documentation is not clear. Everything implies both are necessary.
-----Original Message----- From: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[email protected]> Date: Friday, May 14, 2021 at 08:40 To: Daniel White <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Separating Dovecot and Postfix On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:37:15 +0000, White, Daniel E. (GSFC-770.0)[NICS] wrote: > I am struggling to update a very old set of mail servers. > Some are supposed to be relays (MTAs by my understanding) while others are > where the mailboxes live (MDA) > > In rebuilding the MDA servers, is postfix required on the same server or > can dovecot connect to postfix on a separate MTA server ? The old MDAs > have both installed, but the config files are a mess. They can live on different servers. I have two - one with postfix and mailman, and a second one with dovecot. Postfix delivers mail to dovecot via lmtp. Jeff.
