Hi, thanks for the reply. I'm new to all this. How can I tell if postfix is deferring messages, or if it thinks they've been delieverd? Where is the postfix log?

How do I feed a message to dovecot-lda manually, as mailman?

How do I use LMTP instead of LDA?

*/#!/*JoePea

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> wrote:

At 6AM -0800 on 19/11/12 you (/#!/JoePea) wrote:

...

I can't get dovecot working with postfix. If I leave virtual_transport

set

...

to "virtual", I can send and receive messages just fine in roundcube. If I set virtual_transport to "dovecot", I can only send messages in roundcube, but incoming messages never arrive. Seems I can't get dovecot-lda to work. I need dovecot-lda in order for sieve filters to work.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Here's doveconf -n: http://pastie.org/5401133

postconf -n: http://pastie.org/5401157

and postconf -M: http://pastie.org/5401177

The only obvious thing I can see wrong there is that you have

mail_plugins = " sieve"

in dovecot.conf, which should be

mail_plugins = sieve

but I don't know that that would prevent delivery.

Is Postfix deferring the message, or does it think it's been delivered? What do you see in your logs when a message is delivered (since you've redirected Dovecot away from syslog, you'd need to look at both Postfix's and Dovecot's logs)?

What happens if you feed a message to dovecot-lda manually, as 'mailman'? Check the exitcode of lda and the logs, as well as seeing if the message was delivered.

Since you've set up a dedicated transport for Dovecot, it would probably be worth using LMTP instead of the LDA. It should be more efficient, and since you're only using a single virtual user you can tell dovecot to run the LMTP server as 'mailman' instead of root.

Ben

Hi Ben, Indeed, the mailq command shows my test messages sitting there with "mail transport unavailable".

┌─[11:48:22/hypership/root/~] └─╼ mailq -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient------- 2DCCB580C01 1901 Mon Nov 26 11:45:02 trusktr@gmail.com (mail transport unavailable) trusktr@bettafootwear.com

B1449580C03 1895 Mon Nov 26 11:48:41 trusktr@gmail.com (mail transport unavailable) trusktr@bettafootwear.com

-- 5 Kbytes in 2 Requests.

I checked in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf and it shows destination d_mail { file("/var/log/mail.log"); }; but there is no such mail.log file so I created one.

I logged in as mailman by doing su -s /bin/bash mailman then ran

/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f trusktr@gmail.com -d trusktr@bettafootwear.com </home/mailman/test_msg.txt

where /home/mailman/test_msg.txt contains a plain text sentence. After doing that, mailq shows the new messages, but with the same "mail transport unavailable" message. However, in Roundcube I see a new blank message with no subject for each attempt of the dovecot-lda command.

Also, the after running the dovecot-lda command a few times, I noticed it was saying that the log files weren't writable (permission denied), so I fixed that... However, that doesn't seem to have fixed the problem as test emails from gmail still don't appear in Roundcube, but I see them with mailq with "mail transport unavailable".

I'll skip setting up LMTP until I get it working with LDA so I know what I'm doing before getting into more complications.

*/#!/*JoePea

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> wrote:

At 2AM -0800 on 26/11/12 you (/#!/JoePea) wrote:

...

Hi, thanks for the reply. I'm new to all this. How can I tell if postfix is deferring messages, or if it thinks they've been delieverd? Where is the postfix log?

You can tell if a message is still in the queue with 'mailq'. You can find out why by reading the log. If messages are being deferred they will eventually start bouncing, once Postfix decides they've spent too long in the queue.

Postfix normally logs through the 'mail' facility of syslog.

...

How do I feed a message to dovecot-lda manually, as mailman?

Something along the lines of

sudo -u mailman /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f some@user
    -d some@user </some/mail/message

as root should work, depending on your sudo setup. Otherwise you will need to use su, which can be more awkward.

...

How do I use LMTP instead of LDA?

Read the wiki for the Dovecot end, and use

virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:/path/to/lmtp/socket

on the Postfix end. You will want to test the LMTP server is working manually (with nc -U or something) before trying to get Postfix to deliver to it.

Ben

may be this is the best way

dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} -a ${recipient}

parameter-a $ {recipient} allow to keep the recipient's address in the headers "from:"

19.11.12 21:04, Fi4IT - Daniel Fischer пишет:

Hello Joe,

i use this: main.cf virtual_transport = dovecot

master.cf dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient}

/etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-lda.conf protocol lda { log_path = /var/log/sieve.log mail_plugins = acl sieve }

and that works fine with my tested clients (tb,outlook,roundcube)

daniel

Am 19.11.2012 15:17, schrieb /#!/JoePea:

...

Hi all,

I can't get dovecot working with postfix. If I leave virtual_transport set to "virtual", I can send and receive messages just fine in roundcube. If I set virtual_transport to "dovecot", I can only send messages in roundcube, but incoming messages never arrive. Seems I can't get dovecot-lda to work. I need dovecot-lda in order for sieve filters to work.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Here's doveconf -n: http://pastie.org/5401133

postconf -n: http://pastie.org/5401157

and postconf -M: http://pastie.org/5401177

Note: All I have to do is change virtual_transport = dovecot to virtual_transport = virtual and all will be fine, except for that I won't have sieve filtering which is what I really want.

*/#!/*JoePea

1. clear the log
2. Send message
3. show mail.log mail.err

you should add following in main.cf

dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1

27.11.12 1:15, /#!/JoePea пишет:

Hi, thanks for the reply, What's the difference between dovecot-lda and deliver? Are they the same? The manpages are identical. I tried both and I also tried adding the -a ${recipient} argument but there was no change. It still doesn't work. Any other ideas?

*/#/!//*JoePea

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Николай Клименко <klimenko.n@theitidea.ru <mailto:klimenko.n@theitidea.ru>> wrote:

may be this is the best way


dovecot   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
  flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver  -f
${sender} -d ${recipient} -a ${recipient}

parameter-a $ {recipient}
allow to keep the recipient's address in the headers "from:"


19.11.12 21:04, Fi4IT - Daniel Fischer пишет:

    Hello Joe,

    i use this:
    main.cf <http://main.cf>
    virtual_transport = dovecot

    master.cf <http://master.cf>
    dovecot   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
      flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f
    ${sender} -d ${recipient}

    /etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-lda.conf
    protocol lda {
      log_path = /var/log/sieve.log
      mail_plugins = acl sieve
    }

    and that works fine with my tested clients (tb,outlook,roundcube)

    daniel

    Am 19.11.2012 15:17, schrieb /#!/JoePea:

        Hi all,

        I can't get dovecot working with postfix. If I leave
        virtual_transport set
        to "virtual", I can send and receive messages just fine in
        roundcube. If I
        set virtual_transport to "dovecot", I can only send
        messages in roundcube,
        but incoming messages never arrive. Seems I can't get
        dovecot-lda to work.
        I need dovecot-lda in order for sieve filters to work.

        Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

        Here's `doveconf -n`:
        http://pastie.org/5401133

        `postconf -n`:
        http://pastie.org/5401157

        and `postconf -M`:
        http://pastie.org/5401177

        Note: All I have to do is change virtual_transport =
        dovecot to
        virtual_transport
        = virtual and all will be fine, except for that I won't
        have sieve
        filtering which is what I really want.

        */#!/*JoePea