On 24.11.17 18:30, Rich Freeman wrote: > While Postfix certainly won't serve up email via IMAP it definitely > does store email.
As an MTA should, Postfix transports email. It can also handle local mail transport (say, in maildirs) and I guess one could call that "storing" mail, but to me that's stretching the term too far. > You are correct that you'd run a separate IMAP server. They need not > be on the same host assuming they can both get at the maildirs. 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. -Ralph
