[Dovecot] [sendmail] deliver+sieve: Destination address (-a) parsing changes

Frank Behrens frank at ilse.behrens.de
Wed Oct 21 19:09:50 EEST 2009


Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi at onet.eu> wrote on 21 Oct 2009 9:21:
> It is possible to "significantly" twist sendmail.cf use $h to select
> dovecot's mailbox and $u to pass user+detail at domain (one *or many*).
> [ BTW the way I think about  will make sendmail support "alises with
> domains" instead 
> of current "aliases after domain stripping"] 
> 
> It is not a big deal if:
> * all dovecot's mailboxes are owned by single non root OS account
> * sendmail is supposed to start dovecot-deliver with root privileges
> 
> P.S.
> I have written a few sendmail.cf recipients intended to support more
> than "one and the only" local mailer.

Fine, it sounds promising. So I will see, what I can do with a modified rule set. May be it's a 
good idea to have a special dovecot local mailer with matching envelope rewriting rules.

Thanks!
   Frank

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