[Dovecot] Sendmail + Deliver as an LDA

[Patrick Domack]

You just need to set system-user in you alias file to execute a program (procmail), this way it overrides the local delivery agent 


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> "deliver" is working fine.
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> /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d test at domain1 < testmail
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> creates the virtual-mailbox. (uid,gid,mail,home through passwd sql)
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> Currently we have a virtualusertable
> (FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl)
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> virtualusertable looks like:
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> user1 at domain1 user1 at hotmail.com
> user2 at domain1 user2 at hotmail.com
> @domain1 system-user
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> For the moment, an email sent to test at domain1 is forwarded to the  
> system-user.
> The system-user has a .procmail-config where he places the incomming  
> mail into the correct virtual-mailbox.
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> Now we have replaced "local_procmail" with "deliver":
> FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver',`deliver -d $u')
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> an email sent to test at domain1 is placed in the system-user's real-mailbox.
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> How to keep the external-forward-functionality of the  
> virtualusertable and to be able to deliver into the virtual-mailbox?
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> Regards,
> Natan
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>> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
>> From: andrzej.filip at gmail.com
>> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:19:21 +0200
>> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Sendmail + Deliver as an LDA
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>> Natan Vermeersch <natanver at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Need help with setup/config.
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>> > Current situation: (dovecot version : 1.1.7)
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>> > we have system users and virtual users. (with different domains)
>> > Virtual users have procmail as LDA
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>> > Now we want "deliver" to become the LDA
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>> > I'm confused reading http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail
>> > [...]
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>> To use dovecot's deliver as sendmail's local mailer you need the following
>> lines in your sendmail.mc:
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>> FEATURE(`local_procmail',  
>> `/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/deliver',`deliver -d $u')
>> MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `-f')
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>> 1) Change path to dovecot's deliver to fit your installation.
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>> 2) The second line is needed only if your deliver does not support
>> "-f envelope_sender" command line argument or if dovecot and sendmail do
>> not "play well together" with "empty" (<>) envelope sender.
>> I do not think it is required but http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail
>> mentions it for some (unexplained) reasons.
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>> 3) the above changes should not affect deliveries to virtual users
>> [ unless you use *VERY* unusual sendmail configuration ]
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>> P.S.
>> Do you reject messages to non existing virtual users in reply to "RCPT TO:"?
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>> --
>> [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi at onet.eu
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>> -- Adventures of Asterix
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