[PLUG] Postfix + Dovecot

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Feb 18 13:44:13 UTC 2015


On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, David wrote:

> What you need is to set your configs to use a smarthost. My searches
> turned up very few results, but I did find this one that seems to what you
> need with all the steps required.
>
> <http://xmodulo.com/configure-mail-server-postfix-dovecot.html>
>
> Hopefully this will get you going in the right direction.

David,

   Thank you. The one thread on this subject that I found on a web forum
mentioned something about a smarthost. But, Wietse wrote that dovecot does
not authenticate against a remote server.

   While dovecot seems to be preferred to cyrus in most networks, it
apparently will not work for me unless, or until, I can use smtp directly
and with relaying. I first set up postfix here in 1998 and have used it with
cyrus-sasl since then. Now that I'm the only one sending and receiving mail
here (the other user does gmail, but that local mailbox collects spam) it
probably does not matter.

   So, I'll remove dovecot and not spend more time looking for a more elegant
solution that probably makes no difference here.

   The one remaining issue, beyond my knowledge to fix despite my looking at
both source code and the SlackBuild script, is why one line in
/usr/libexec/postfix/post-install has an unquoted variable, $path, on line
504 with each upgrade since 2.11.2. I fix that manually, but it would be
nice to see that 'feature' fixed.

Much appreciated,

Rich




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