[Dovecot] Using deliver from Getmail [solved]

[Andreas Ntaflos]

On Monday 14 January 2008 16:23:03 Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> a quick question: can I use Dovecot's LDA "deliver" as a destination in
> Getmail? I.e.:
>
> [destination]
> type = MDA_external
> path = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver
> arguments = ("-d", "username",)

Hello list, 

as a followup, (with an additional question which I probably should post as a 
separate message) I think I have found the solution.

But to clarify: I am /not/ using a virtual user/virtual domain setup, all 
users have shell accounts and home directories. The server only hosts two 
domains (set in $mydestination in Postfix) and I use Dovecot with a 
simple "userdb passwd" setup, as seen in dovecot -n at the end.

Postfix uses Dovecot's LDA deliver to deliver incoming messages for the two 
hosted domains, as described in [1], via 

mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver

This seems to be the same as unsetting mailbox_command and instead creating a 
~/.forward file in each home directory, with the contents

| "/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver"

so deliver gets called by the user itself (thus no permission problems). 
Either method seems to work, producing the same results.

To have Getmail use Dovecot's deliver I simply had to set the [destination] 
section in the rc-file to:

[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver

which seems to do the trick. No arguments required. Mail fetched by Getmail 
gets handed to deliver which then puts it in the users inbox. I just had to 
rewrite some of my ~/.dovecot.sieve, but that's specific to my setup/site.

So thanks for all the input and help in this and the other [2] thread! Really 
appreciated!

Andreas

[1] http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/27076
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Andreas Ntaflos 
Vienna, Austria 

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