Hi dovecot users,
I've decided to re-install my dovecot-imapd server with lmtp functionality
I've been looking at my dovecot source, it certainly contains an lmtp sub folder.
I've looked at the details for the config of lda, and I wonder why (particularly as I installed from source) dovecot does not install with lmtp by default ? this is particularly in respect to the details on the wiki2 page: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA
Nowadays you should probably use the LMTP server
<http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP> instead, because it's somewhat
easier to configure (especially related to permissions) and gives
better performance.I've looked through to see how to build dovecot with ldmp support, and I don't find anything in the install doc page http://wiki2.dovecot.org/CompilingSource that explains what switch I need to use to add compatibility for lmtp.
I will admit I've not looked very far outside of the official dovecot site, but then most of the google hits return me straight to the above mentioned pages.
I should also note that when I downloaded the 'newest version' of dovecot using : wget http://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.13.tar.gz
Everything goes fine, after doing the stuff a dovecot -n returns
# 2.2.13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.3Which is pleasing, as previously it return 2.1.7 I haven't changed any of my config files, looking at the upgradeing page on the wiki it would seem I haven't set any configs that require it.
I now restart the process.
$ sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotFatal: service(lmtp)
access(/usr/lib/dovecot/lmtp) failed: No such file or directory
failed!I can confirm that the file it is looking for doesn't exist, but how do I configure the install of dovecot to include it?
thanks in advance for your advice
David
I include below a part of the original converstion that has led me to decide to add lmtp support to my install.
On 19/09/14 11:42, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
The files q1.. belong to ~/mail/new/ . Exim does not spool them as Maildir. I would recommend to use Dovecot LDA or LMTP.
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=Exim&titlesearch=Titles
See LDA or LMTP
I've added the required stuff to the dovecot and exim configs, but clearly I need to install dovecot-lmtpd (error message about not finding the executable)
Maybe, you should begin with the LDA then.
However I needed to install dovecot from source (as I couldn't get the server to accept backports ?). Any advice on upgrading / changing the install ?
Can I simply make a copy of the whole of my config (which otherwise works), then do the same install from a /deb source file for lmtpd, then copy my config back to this location?
Or do you advise some other path for the upgrade ?
Usually, you see how Debian compiles the source - the ./configure options . But I wonder if you want to overwrite the system places. That's you decision. I would: use the LDA now, in order to get the server to work. Then use a test system for the LMTP stuff.
I've been looking at my dovecot source, it certainly contains an lmtp sub folder.
I've looked at the details for the config of lda, and I wonder why (particularly as I installed from source) dovecot does not install with lmtp by default ? this is particularly in respect to the details on the wiki2 page: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA
Nowadays you should probably use the LMTP server
<http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP> instead, because it's somewhat
easier to configure (especially related to permissions) and gives
better performance.I've looked through to see how to build dovecot with ldmp support, and I don't find anything in the install doc page
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