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