[Dovecot] Using deliver from Getmail?

[Andreas Ntaflos]

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?
-- 
Andreas "daff" Ntaflos
Vienna, Austria

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