On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 17:53:47 +0200 (EET) Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@dovecot.fi> wrote:
> > On November 3, 2017 at 1:50 PM Stephan von Krawczynski > > <skraw...@ithnet.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > we have a setup where SMTP/LDA and POP3/IMAP are on different physical > > hosts. They share the mail data via an external storage. > > Now we would like to use dovecot-lda on the smtp host, so we wonder if the > > lda binary works without starting dovecot from init. As there will be no > > POP3/IMAP usage on this host it seems unnecessary. Nevertheless we cannot > > judge if it is still needed for lda&sieve to work. > > Your opinion? > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Stephan > > dovecot-lda does not work without dovecot unless you have physical users and > you run the binary as target user. with virtual users it's virtually > impossible to achieve. > > Aki Hello Aki, let me explain this a bit more. We do not intend to use only some copied binary. Of course we would do a full installation of dovecot and pidgeonhole, only we question if it is necessary to start the dovecot init-file bringing up the dovecot imap/imap-login/pop/pop-login/auth and other processes. Indeed we have virtual users. -- Regards, Stephan