[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0 and lmtp

Andrey Melnikoff temnota+news at kmv.ru
Tue May 25 19:37:15 EEST 2010


In article <1274804702.28409.58.camel at kurkku.sapo.corppt.com> you wrote:
> 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.

Add to wiki:

dovecot_lmtp_tcp:
  driver=smtp
  protocol=lmtp
  port = 24024
  hosts=localhost
  allow_localhost
  return_path_add

dovecot_lmtp_udp:
  driver=lmtp
  socket = /var/run/dovecot/lmtp
  return_path_add



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