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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Dave Myers wrote:
Thanks for your input, and please excuse my clearly stupid questions.. ;)
The files q1.. belong to ~/mail/new/ . Exim does not spool them as Maildir. I would recommend to use Dovecot LDA or LMTP.
where / how do I get that to work ?
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.
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