On Jan 5, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2011, at 2:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Message: 12 >> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 10:31:31 -0500 >> From: Dan Shoop <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: dovecot errors >> To: Scott Ribe <[email protected]> >> >> >> On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Scott Ribe wrote: >> >>> Is it possible that there's some other service enabled which starts up >>> dovecot directly rather than depending on the launchd service? >> >> No, it's started by launchd and that was also abundantly clear by the log >> entries for which launchd was it's parent. >> >> But as I pointed out, any attempt at mail delivery will require dovecot in >> OS X Server (unless you've set delivery directly to a user mail spool as per >> the user account record in WGM.) >> >> -d > > If postfix is running then it is setup by default in /etc/postfix/main.cf to > use mailbox_transport=dovecot and there is a transport for dovecot specified > in /etc/postfix/master.cf. > Even if it is not running in daemon mode, postfix can still handle local mail > generated by syslog or other means. > > AFAICT, you can't change this via Server Admin. So, unless you've already > made changes to postfix configuration, It will call dovecot. From there, I > guess it's up to launchd whether the process gets spawned or not.
As I pointed out you do (affect user delivery changes via Server Admin) but also affect this in WGM. Specifically you need to enable 'Deliver to "/var/mail" when IMAP & POP are disabled" in Server Admin and then for the user if they have POP and IMAP disabled for mail in WGM it should deliver directly through postfix to the mail spool rather than with dovecot. So dovecot is the default for delivery but may not always be used. -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Shoop [email protected] GoogleVoice: 1-646-402-5293 aim: iWiring twitter: @colonelmode _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
