[Dovecot] getmail and Dovecot LDA deliver

[Robert Schetterer]

spacejam schrieb:
> 
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Aug 10, 2009, at 4:50 AM, spacejam wrote:
>>
>>> My question is: How do I let deliver know that it should use a  
>>> virtual user?
>>> I tried with the -d agrument in my getmail rc File, but deliver never
>>> accepts the parameter -d (always says unknown parameter -d).
>> Either you're using some really ancient deliver version or the error  
>> message comes from getmail or something else besides deliver. So, what  
>> Dovecot version do you use? And also copy&paste the exact error  
>> message (and maybe other messages too) that you get. And the getmailrc  
>> could help too.
>>
>>
>>
> I compiled deliver from Dovecot-1.0.15 The -d parameter is accepted by
> deliver if Postfix invokes the mailbox_command to "deliver" emails to
> virtual accounts. The error message from deliver is something like "deliver
> unknown argument -d username" (I will check the exact message this evening
> after work). As well I will post the content of the destination section from
> my rc file which tries so invoke deliver for mail delivery to virtual
> account.
> I'm pretty sure that the error message comes from deliver as the program
> name (deliver) is mentioned in the logfiles with the error message
> 
just as an idea
it may work using postfix sendmail

[destination]

type = MDA_external

path = /path/to/sendmail ( parameters )

then postfix may start deliver

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MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria