On Monday, 27 November 2017 22:14:34 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:48:11 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > These few lines save you from all the potential hassle that sharing > > > read/write access to the same files could bring. Dovecot will ensure > > > that indexes are up to date when mail is delivered, and that alone is > > > reason enough for me. > > > > Do you really need lmtp for that, though? As far as I remember simply > > piping the messages to the /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver program, as the > > deilivery mechanism, will ensure the same thing. I don't know postfix > > much though, so maybe that's hard to do with postfix, > > unlike my pet exim. > > In that case, why bother with Postfix at all. Can't fetchmail send mails > directly to an MDA? I use getmail and it doesn't need Postfix at all.
In my case, postfix collates emails from other boxes on the LAN. -- Regards, Peter.
