I have been attempting to replace Procmail with Dovecot as the LDA for my Postfix mail server, but without success. Below is a truncated output from the /var/log/maillog.
Aug 9 11:56:20 scorpio postfix/local[4338]: 88C3FC3D1: to=gerard@localhost.seibercom.net, orig_to=gerard@localhost, relay=local, delay=1119, delays=1118/0.71/0/0.11, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure) Aug 9 11:56:20 scorpio postfix/local[4324]: 818AEBF6F: to=gerard-gmail@localhost.seibercom.net, orig_to=gerard-gmail@localhost, relay=local, delay=495, delays=494/0.06/0/0.81, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure) Aug 9 11:57:37 scorpio postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system Aug 9 11:57:37 scorpio postfix/master[4233]: terminating on signal 15 Aug 9 12:00:09 scorpio postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system Aug 9 12:00:09 scorpio postfix/master[4501]: daemon started -- version 2.4-2000727, configuration /usr/local/etc/postfix Aug 9 12:00:28 scorpio postfix/smtpd[4522]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Aug 9 12:00:28 scorpio postfix/smtpd[4522]: A269EC46D: client=localhost[127.0.0.1] Aug 9 12:00:28 scorpio postfix/cleanup[4526]: A269EC46D: message-id=44DA0115.40500@dlr.de Aug 9 12:00:28 scorpio postfix/qmgr[4503]: A269EC46D: from=samba-bounces+gerard=seibercom.net@lists.samba.org, size=7308, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 9 12:00:29 scorpio postfix/local[4527]: A269EC46D: to=gerard@localhost.seibercom.net, orig_to=gerard@localhost, relay=local, delay=0.58, delays=0.2/0.06/0/0.33, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/local/bin/procmail) Aug 9 12:00:29 scorpio postfix/qmgr[4503]: A269EC46D: removed
With Dovecot as the LDA, no mail is ever delivered. I keep getting this temporary failure message. As soon as I revert to Procmail everything works fine. I am simply trying to deliver to mbox format on a FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE system. Nothing exotic.
I am using SASL2. Authentication is via saslauthd -a sasldb. Perhaps I do not have that configured correctly in Dovecot. Dovecot does work fine as a POP server though, so it is running at least partially correctly.
I would appreciate any assistance.
-- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw