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This is part of my getmailrc

[destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver user = ebal group = mail arguments = ( '-d', 'ebal' )

i use getmail + dovecot + sieve + spamassassin [filter getmail] at all of my accounts.

Andreas Ntaflos wrote: | Hello list, | | a quick question: can I use Dovecot's LDA "deliver" as a destination in | Getmail? I.e.: | | [destination] | type = MDA_external | path = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver | arguments = ("-d", "username",) | | Or is deliver not supposed to be called this way? | | What I'd like to do is use deliver in the same way I would have used procmail | ages ago. Getmail retrieves the mail messages, filters them according to the | filter sections set up and then puts them in the final destination as noted | above. | | Of course I would like to have deliver honour my .dovecot.sieve sieve script. | My first tries have not been very successful, all messages retrieved in this | way are put in the top level INBOX, not being sieved. | | I also got this error message, but I am not sure how it is related: | | Jan 14 16:08:04 localhost deliver(username): | net_connect(/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied | | Does my user need any special permissions to use the LDA? | | TIA! | | Andreas | | P.S.: Using Dovecot 1.0.5 with the Sieve plugin. I can post the output of | dovecot -n but I don't think it's necessary?

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On Monday 14 January 2008 16:23:03 Andreas Ntaflos wrote:

Hello list,

a quick question: can I use Dovecot's LDA "deliver" as a destination in Getmail? I.e.:

[destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver arguments = ("-d", "username",)

Hello list,

as a followup, (with an additional question which I probably should post as a separate message) I think I have found the solution.

But to clarify: I am /not/ using a virtual user/virtual domain setup, all users have shell accounts and home directories. The server only hosts two domains (set in $mydestination in Postfix) and I use Dovecot with a simple "userdb passwd" setup, as seen in dovecot -n at the end.

Postfix uses Dovecot's LDA deliver to deliver incoming messages for the two hosted domains, as described in [1], via

mailbox_command = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver

This seems to be the same as unsetting mailbox_command and instead creating a ~/.forward file in each home directory, with the contents

| "/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver"

so deliver gets called by the user itself (thus no permission problems). Either method seems to work, producing the same results.

To have Getmail use Dovecot's deliver I simply had to set the [destination] section in the rc-file to:

[destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver

which seems to do the trick. No arguments required. Mail fetched by Getmail gets handed to deliver which then puts it in the users inbox. I just had to rewrite some of my ~/.dovecot.sieve, but that's specific to my setup/site.

So thanks for all the input and help in this and the other [2] thread! Really appreciated!

Andreas

[1] http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/27076

Andreas Ntaflos Vienna, Austria

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