Steffen Kaiser skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote on 20 Oct 2008 11:46:
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Sotiris Tsimbonis wrote:
But how do we move the rejection at smtp level using sendmail+dovecot lda?
When a recipient is valid, the mail is queued locally, then the delivery attempt is made. That means that the SMTP dialogue has been closed already, before the MDA is invoked. sendmail has quite a strict separation between MTA and MDA, or to put it in other words it supports only the basic Unix-style /var/mail/system_user mboxes natively.
I'm not sure how sendmail handles delivery via LMTP. _May be_ this can improve the situation. Of course, dovecot's deliver must support it.
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