Re: Delivering locally through the Submission Server

2020-11-03 Thread R. Diez
> And probably would never do. It isn't its job description. > [...] > The idea is to have one software package that does one defined set of > functions really well, as not to complicate things by lumping everything > together. Delivering mail is a generally complex process that needs > a separa

Re: Delivering locally through the Submission Server

2020-11-03 Thread Piotr Auksztulewicz
On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 12:37:07PM +0200, Aki Tuomi wrote: > Submission service is not only a proxy, it > > - provides authentication natively from Dovecot > - provides features like BURL, and maybe in future outbound Sieve I didn't know about BURL, thanks. Looks interesting. I am sometimes rea

Re: Delivering locally through the Submission Server

2020-11-03 Thread Aki Tuomi
> On 03/11/2020 12:31 Piotr Auksztulewicz wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 09:33:08PM +0100, R. Diez wrote: > > OK, so I gather that the Submission Server cannot do that (yet). > > And probably would never do. It isn't its job description. > > Actually, it is just a convenience/workarou

Re: Delivering locally through the Submission Server

2020-11-03 Thread Piotr Auksztulewicz
On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 09:33:08PM +0100, R. Diez wrote: > OK, so I gather that the Submission Server cannot do that (yet). And probably would never do. It isn't its job description. Actually, it is just a convenience/workaround feature, which comes handy only if your own MTA cannot handle doveco

Re: Delivering locally through the Submission Server

2020-11-02 Thread lists
.   Original Message   From: rdiezmail-2...@yahoo.de Sent: November 2, 2020 12:33 PM To: j...@voipsupport.it Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: Delivering locally through the Submission Server > what should it do with the non local messages or local messages directly > at aliases? OK

Re: Delivering locally through the Submission Server

2020-11-02 Thread John Fawcett
On 02/11/2020 21:33, R. Diez wrote: > >> what should it do with the non local messages or local messages directly >> at aliases? > > OK, so I gather that the Submission Server cannot do that (yet). > > My suggestion for a future version would then be: How about running > dovecot-lda, if the user ha

Re: Delivering locally through the Submission Server

2020-11-02 Thread John Stoffel
R> I am learning Dovecot step by step. I have enabled the Submission R> Server, in the hope that I would not need to learn other MTAs like R> Postfix. It's not that hard to setup postfix to accept incoming email from the internet and your local users, and to then pass it to dovecot as needed. D

Re: Delivering locally through the Submission Server

2020-11-02 Thread R. Diez
what should it do with the non local messages or local messages directly at aliases? OK, so I gather that the Submission Server cannot do that (yet). My suggestion for a future version would then be: How about running dovecot-lda, if the user happens to be local, or a local alias? Or at leas

Re: Delivering locally through the Submission Server

2020-11-02 Thread John Fawcett
On 02/11/2020 20:17, R. Diez wrote: > Hi all: > > I am learning Dovecot step by step. I have enabled the Submission > Server, in the hope that I would not need to learn other MTAs like > Postfix. the submission server is a proxy in front of an MTA. You can't avoid having an MTA somewhere in your so

Delivering locally through the Submission Server

2020-11-02 Thread R. Diez
Hi all: I am learning Dovecot step by step. I have enabled the Submission Server, in the hope that I would not need to learn other MTAs like Postfix. The Submission Server is very comfortable: it picks up the existing Dovecot configuration, so that you do not need to configure any user authent