[Dovecot] How to configure sendmail using dovecot lmtp

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 5 Aug 2013, alfdc wrote:

> I can't seems to find any posting on how to configure sendmail to use
> dovecot as lmtp. All I see is using it as LDA.  I am particularly interested
> on how to tell sendmail to ask dovecot to deliver the message to the user.
>
> In the wiki for lda it says to add the following in the sendmail  config:
>
> FEATURE(`local_procmail',
> `/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver',`/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d
> $u')
> MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `-f')
> MAILER(procmail)
>
> Is this the same for lmtp? If so how does it know when to use lda or lmtp?
> Beside, is procmail playing any role in any of these? Can the I just replace
> the whole thing as:
>
> FEATURE(`local_lmtp',`/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver',`/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver
> -d $u)
> MAILER(`local')

you are using system users, then you can use:

FEATURE(`local_lmtp',`[IPC]',`FILE /var/run/dovecot2.2/lmtp')dnl

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Steffen Kaiser
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