[Dovecot] different mail_locations
Antonio Casado Rodríguez
acasado at ual.es
Tue Mar 4 15:53:39 EET 2008
Hi Timo
Timo Sirainen escribió:
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Antonio Casado Rodríguez wrote:
>
>> Yes, it work well. But the mail still not arrived.
>>
>> How do I configure /bin/mail to arrive mails with postfix and dovecot
>> off? I use dovecot-lda
>>
>> # su - myuser -c 'echo $MAIL; echo $HOME'
>> /var/spool/mail/myuser
>> /var/spool/mail/myuser/home
>>
>> # echo hello | mail myuser (work if postfix is on and dovecot
>> is off)
>
> Why do you want to do that? It's Postfix that receives the mails.
>
> If you really want to deliver mails while Postfix isn't running, run
> Dovecot's deliver directly:
>
> echo hello | /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver
>
I did:
# echo hello | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
Fatal: destination user parameter (-d user) not given
# echo hello | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d foo
# tail /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-deliver.log
deliver(foo): Mar 04 14:36:27 Error: Can't connect to auth server at
/var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory
foo$ echo hello | /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
foo$ more foo/cur/1204638363.P28199Q0M553430.blade25,S=11:2,S
hello
It haven't headers :(
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