[Dovecot] Sendmail and Dovecot deliver (dovecot-lda)

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

Giles Coochey <giles at coochey.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Centos 5 system with sendmail running as my MTA.
>
> Normally I note from sendmail logs that mails get delivered using the
> local' mailer.
>
> I have therefore entered the following into my sendmail.mc file, from
> an earlier post on this list:
>
> define(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver')
> define(`LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS',`DFMPhfnu9')
> define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS',`deliver -d $u')
>
> However, when sendmail tries to use deliver I just get this message:
>
> Feb 13 15:37:23 gate sendmail[1399]: p1DEWtc2021995:
> to=<user at example.org>, delay=00:04:28, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local,
> pri=121665, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: local mailer
> (/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL
>
> I've tried to get better logging by putting the following in
> 15-lda.conf in /etc/dovecot/conf.d:
>
> protocol lda {
>   postmaster_address = postmaster at example.org
>   auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>   mail_plugins = sieve
>   mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir
>   log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log
>   info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log
> }
>
> I find nothing gets written to the log file, even if I make it a world
> writable file.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas? What are the best steps to get more
> information troubleshooting?

Try procmail_local recipe at http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail
[ IMHO third line is not necessary ]

FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver',`/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $u')
MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `-f')

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