[Dovecot] Running mailfront under dovecot2.x service supervision

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 19.04.2011 12:23, schrieb Uffe Jakobsen:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to run mailfront SMTP (http://untroubled.org/mailfront/) under
> Dovecot 2.x process/service supervision
> 
> My intention was to utilize the fact that dovecot2.x seems to have some kind
> of generic process/service supervision as well as builtin ssl support.
> But I cannot get the most simple generic service setup (without ssl) to
> work.  
> 
> Currently running dovecot 2.0.11 on FreeBSD 8.1
> 
> 
> service smtp-auth {
>         executable = /usr/local/bin/smtpfront-qmail
>         inet_listener smtp-auth {
>                 port = 587
>                 ssl = no
>         }
> }
> 
> I have added the above to dovecot.conf
> 
> Once I start dovecot everything seems fine - no errors in the log
> But at the first attempt to telnet to localhost port 587 - I instantly get
> the indication of never ending forks in the dovecot log (see below) -
> neither do I get the SMTP prompt that I expected in my telnet session - it
> just hangs.
> 
> Apr 19 10:05:34 smtp-auth: Error: mailfront[43539]: bytes in: 0 bytes out:
> 29
> Apr 19 10:05:34 smtp-auth: Error: mailfront[43541]: bytes in: 0 bytes out:
> 29
> Apr 19 10:05:34 smtp-auth: Error: mailfront[43543]: bytes in: 0 bytes out:
> 29
> Apr 19 10:05:34 smtp-auth: Error: mailfront[43545]: bytes in: 0 bytes out:
> 29
> 
> Question is if I've misconfigured something or if it is impossible to
> utilize dovecot2.x this way ?
> 
> PS: Now I know that I could use daemontools or such for this task - but I
> like the dovecot ssl handling and would like to end up by wrapping this smtp
> service inside same dovecot ssl that I use for IMAPS.
> 
> Any feedback is more than welcome - I'm stuck
> 
> Thanks in advance Uffe
> 

i ve got confused, dovecot is no smtp server
what are you trying to goal ?

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MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria