[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0 and lmtp

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 13:08 +0400, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote:
> Dovecot now support lmtp, i'm try to tell exim transport to use lmtp
> 
> driver = lmtp
> command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/lmtp
> 
> But get error:
> 
> May 12 13:00:43 selfip exim[13863]: [13863] 1OC7nF-00036i-Ue ==
> vase at selfip.ru R=usr_aliases T=usr_aliases defer (-19): Malformed LMTP
> response after initial connection: Debug: none: root=, index=,
>  control=, inbox=
> 
> What does it mean?

It means you should tell Exim to connect to Dovecot LMTP via UNIX socket
or TCP port (you need to add unix_listener or inet_listener to service
lmtp {} in 10-master.conf), not execute lmtp binary directly. I don't
know how to tell that to Exim.