[Dovecot] Running dovecot-lda

[Reuben Farrelly]

Hi,

On 4/01/2006 1:36 p.m., Linus Nordberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm planning on setting up dovecot with dovecot-lda, for sieve
> support.  What does the list have to say about versions to use?  I
> prefer stability over features but sieve has to be there.

There is only one version of dovecot-lda; that in CVS.  There is no 
official/final release of it yet.

> Does anybody use the combination dovecot 1.0 alpha5 and dovecot-lda
> 0.1 with success or would you recommend running -lda from CVS?  If so,

I'm usually synced up to both in CVS (non critical machine) and at the moment it 
works OK.  I doubt you'd have problems mixing dovecot-lda CVS with anything 
remotely recent but you should ideally run latest alpha release (or CVS if you 
track the changes) of dovecot also.

> is there any point in time that's better than another?  And, will
> dovecot 1.0 alpha5 do for -lda from CVS?

The deliver binary in the main dovecot tree has been deprecated, going by recent 
commit messages to CVS, and is no longer compilable in the dovecot tree.  You 
will need to pull the lda branch separately from the CVS server and build it 
alongside dovecot, and configure the lda in dovecot.conf.

Btw I'm yet to see a good reason why you wouldn't use the lda unless you want to 
maintain procmail recipes as is or some other unique delivery mechanism.

I'd say going by the changes in CVS, it is only a matter of short time before 
the deliver code is pulled from dovecot, and the once-separated 
super-sieve-ehnahced lda merged in to become part of the core package.

> Finally, are there any release plans for dovecot-lda that can be
> shared?

It seems pretty stable now, so only Timo can reveal that ;-)

I haven't got any outstanding issues with the LDA, however I've a handful on the 
core dovecot right now which I have worked around one way or another.

Have you looked at http://wiki.dovecot.org/ and through the information on there?

reuben