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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:44:04 +0000
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On Friday, 24 November 2017 17:52:36 GMT Ralph Seichter wrote:
> As the OP is using Postfix to feed data to Dovecot, I strongly suggest
> configuring Dovecot's LMTP as a mailbox transport instead of having
> Postfix write directly to the file system.

Do I really need to do that on this small, low-volume network? What do I 
lose by letting postfix and fetchmail write files for dovecot to read?

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Regards,
Peter.