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Topic: Dovecot to Dovecot communication

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Can dovecot talk to another dovecot on a different server to deliver users' mailboxes? I need to set up a pop/imap server that is not directly connected to a storage but it should indirectly connect to storage using another dovecot (pop/imap) server.

Any idea?

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Re: Dovecot to Dovecot communication

You can configure Dovecot (which connects to mail storage) to enable LMTP, then update domain/user transport to this remote LMTP.
Reference: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP

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Re: Dovecot to Dovecot communication

Thanks for your quick feedback. Now my concern come on the statement "then update domain/user transport to this remote LMTP" How can be done?

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Re: Dovecot to Dovecot communication

Please ALWAYS show us basic info of your iRedMail server, so that we can give you quicker answer:

==== Required information ====
- iRedMail version:
- Store mail accounts in which backend (LDAP/MySQL/PGSQL):
- Linux/BSD distribution name and version:
- Related log if you're reporting an issue:
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iRedMail supports per-user and per-domain transport. for OpenLDAP, it's defined in attribute 'mtaTransport', for SQL backends, it's defined in column "domain.transport" (per-domain) or "mailbox.transport" (per-user).