[Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

[John Williams]

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com> writes:

> John Williams writes:
>
>> *What doesn't work*  I thought the next step would be to execute
>> dovecot-lda manually (as is suggested on the wiki and in numerous
>> newsgroup posts), but I can't figure out how to do this. When I execute
>> it as root and provide my non-root username via the -u option, it
>> hangs.  I can see that it spawns a child process that executes as the
>> non-root user (specified with the -u option).  So, could someone tell
>> how to execute dovecot-lda manually please?
>
> Maybe use "-d"?
D'oh!  I meant -d.  *hangs head in shame*
>
> I had no trouble invoking
>
> 	dovecot-lda -c config-file -d user < mailfile
Aha!  Piping a message to the process was the step I was not aware of.
Thanks Joseph!