I'm new to dovecot and sendmail and my server doesn't forward mails to 'dovecot deliver' at all. I was reading http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail and this http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-June/040353.html from the mailling list but I could figure it out myself. I someone could point me into the right direction.

I'm confused with the config for LDA. Basically what I want is every message coming in go to 'deliver' except if there's no dovecot user of course. I'm using 'local_procmail' feature right now, but I tried to comile the dovecot Mailer also.

Anyway the dovecot 'deliver' itself works fine. But I cannot receiving emails or messages don't go anywhere. All the debugging I do with telnet right now.

first I got 'User Unknown' errors in the maillog so I thought I just missing an alias/virtuser entry. So I create one and forward those to procmail. But now the messages don't go anywhere and the status is sent and I don't seem them in the /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log either, so they are stuck in the middle somewhere.

Oct 16 14:26:26 sendmail[29939]: n9GIQQAh029939: to=|/usr/bin/procmail, ctladdr=<mail.address> (8/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=31420, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

I don't seem to understand how the message get to dovecot's 'deliver' from sendmail.

Some questions I have which may help to solve the problem myself:

• how can I tell the LDA to lookup dovecot users too? to it would accept it?
• do I need aliases therefore for each dovecot users?
• What would the alias look like or is this the wrong way to do it? "test.user: |/usr/bin/procmail" ?
• what's the procmail recipe which would work for maildir:/home/vmail/%u mail_location?

My Sendmail configuration files: $ grep -v "^dnl" sendmail.mc divert(-1)dnl include(/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl VERSIONID(setup for linux')dnl OSTYPE(linux')dnl define(confDEF_USER_ID', ``8:12'')dnl define(confTO_CONNECT', 1m')dnl define(confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST', True')dnl define(confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', True')dnl define(ALIAS_FILE', /etc/aliases')dnl define(STATUS_FILE', /var/log/mail/statistics')dnl define(UUCP_MAILER_MAX', 2000000')dnl define(confUSERDB_SPEC', /etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl define(confPRIVACY_FLAGS', goaway,noetrn')dnl define(confDOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS', ')dnl define(confCOPY_ERRORS_TO', ')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(confAUTH_MECHANISMS', EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(confTO_IDENT', 0')dnl FEATURE(mailertable', hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl FEATURE(virtusertable', hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl FEATURE(local_procmail', /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver', deliver -f $g -d $u', SPhnu9')dnl FEATURE(access_db', hash -T<TMPF> -o /etc/mail/access.db')dnl FEATURE(blacklist_recipients')dnl EXPOSED_USER(root')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl LOCAL_DOMAIN(mydomain.com')dnl MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(LOCAL', -f') MAILER(procmail)dnl

# 1.2.4: /etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 i686 Fedora release 11 (Leonidas) ext4 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log protocols: imap imaps listen: localhost login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: Ciao. mail_uid: 501 mail_gid: 502 mail_location: Maildir:/home/vmail/maildir/%n mail_debug: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@mydomain.com hostname: server.mydomain.com log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver-errors.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log auth default: user: dovecot-login verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=vmail gid=vmail socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail

please tell me if you need more info. any help, hints and suggestions are welcome.

regards. Philipp