Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:23:20
Message-Id: 1654583.xvCePxTXQf@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix by Neil Bothwick
1 On Monday, 27 November 2017 22:14:34 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:48:11 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
3 > > > These few lines save you from all the potential hassle that sharing
4 > > > read/write access to the same files could bring. Dovecot will ensure
5 > > > that indexes are up to date when mail is delivered, and that alone is
6 > > > reason enough for me.
7 > >
8 > > Do you really need lmtp for that, though? As far as I remember simply
9 > > piping the messages to the /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver program, as the
10 > > deilivery mechanism, will ensure the same thing. I don't know postfix
11 > > much though, so maybe that's hard to do with postfix,
12 > > unlike my pet exim.
13 >
14 > In that case, why bother with Postfix at all. Can't fetchmail send mails
15 > directly to an MDA? I use getmail and it doesn't need Postfix at all.
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17 In my case, postfix collates emails from other boxes on the LAN.
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20 Regards,
21 Peter.