Hello to all,
I am setting up a mail server using sendmail and dovecot 2.0.7 with
maildir storage.
I want to use dovecot lmtp as local mail delivery agent becouse when I
send a message to multiple recipients it deliver the message to all
recipients with hard links instead of store n copies of the message.
The only think I can't set up is make dovecot-lmtp reading the
.forward file in the user's home directory.
I think I am missing something, becouse dovecot-lda read that file but
don't do hard links when deliver the mail.
What I am missing?
Thank you
Benedetto Vassallo Sistema Informativo di Ateneo Settore Gestione Reti Hardware e Software U.O. Sviluppo e manutenzione dei sistemi Università degli studi di Palermo
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On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 16:23 +0100, Benedetto Vassallo wrote:
The only think I can't set up is make dovecot-lmtp reading the
.forward file in the user's home directory. I think I am missing something, becouse dovecot-lda read that file but
don't do hard links when deliver the mail.
Neither dovecot-lda nor LMTP reads the .forward file. If it worked before, it was done by something else than dovecot-lda. The proper way to do that would be to use Sieve.
Def. Quota Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>:
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 16:23 +0100, Benedetto Vassallo wrote:
The only think I can't set up is make dovecot-lmtp reading the .forward file in the user's home directory. I think I am missing something, becouse dovecot-lda read that file but don't do hard links when deliver the mail.
Neither dovecot-lda nor LMTP reads the .forward file. If it worked before, it was done by something else than dovecot-lda. The proper way to do that would be to use Sieve.
You are right, it is sendmail that reads the .forward file. I resolved it by adding 'w' in DOVELMTP_MAILER_FLAGS in the mailer definition.
Now I have the hardlinks if I send a message to multiple users (in the
same smtp transaction) and the .forward file working.
I can send my config if useful to someone.
Thank you
Benedetto Vassallo Sistema Informativo di Ateneo Settore Gestione Reti Hardware e Software U.O. Sviluppo e manutenzione dei sistemi Università degli studi di Palermo
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Phone: +3909123860056 Fax: +390916529124
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