Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Monday, 27 November 2017 22:14:34 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:48:11 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > > These few lines save you from all the potential hassle that sharing
> > > read/write access to the same files could bring. Dovecot will ensure
> > > that indexes are up to date when mail is delivered, and that alone is
> > > reason enough for me.
> > 
> > Do you really need lmtp for that, though?  As far as I remember simply
> > piping the messages to the /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver program, as the
> > deilivery mechanism, will ensure the same thing.  I don't know postfix
> > much though, so maybe that's hard to do with postfix,
> > unlike my pet exim.
> 
> In that case, why bother with Postfix at all. Can't fetchmail send mails
> directly to an MDA? I use getmail and it doesn't need Postfix at all.

In my case, postfix collates emails from other boxes on the LAN.

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Regards,
Peter.