[Dovecot] Dovecot as LDA with Postfix

[Gerard Seibert]

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 at localhost.seibercom.net>, orig_to=<gerard at 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 at localhost.seibercom.net>, orig_to=<gerard-gmail at 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 at dlr.de>
Aug  9 12:00:28 scorpio postfix/qmgr[4503]: A269EC46D: from=<samba-bounces+gerard=seibercom.net at lists.samba.org>, size=7308, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug  9 12:00:29 scorpio postfix/local[4527]: A269EC46D: to=<gerard at localhost.seibercom.net>, orig_to=<gerard at 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 at seibercom.net

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than
we deserve.

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