One other question; has anybody considered writing a tool that integrates Dovecot's deliver script and an LMTP server? I'm architecting my system so that my internet facing SMTP is Postfix, but the mail folders live on a different machine. Right now, I'm considering putting a highly restricted Postfix on the internal machine, which only accepts forwards from the external machine. IWBNI I could eliminate that extra Postfix process by just letting the external one deliver to an LMTP on the internal machine, which was integrated with Dovecot's deliver.
Does anything like that exist? I have a reasonably robust Python LMTP server in the current Mailman trunk. Would it be insane to try to marry that with deliver? ;)
-Barry
Dear Barry,
there is at least one interested in. Last days of November, I was searching some hints for an LMTP server, able to deliver like dovecot lda: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-November/017848.html http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-November/017850.html http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-November/017854.html
As you can see, I've to setup a similar environment; in particular, the need of an lmtp server comes from hundreds of mailing-lists. Now I'm working only on a small lmtp server in C [not using inetd or similar like the one from pll] and calling deliver for each good mail, but it would be very interesting for my work trying also something different, and better.
Leonardo