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

[Giles Coochey]

On Mon, February 14, 2011 20:28, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
> 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')
>

Thanks, that at least seems to implement and create a sendmail.cf that
accepts email. I will have to do some more testing to check that it is
actually using dovecots deliver, but it is a start!

Sorry for the long time in replying, but I've been working on other projects.