[Dovecot] deliver and root user

[Arne K. Haaje]

 Mandag 12. juli 2010 20.56.52 skrev Bradlee Landis :
> On RHEL5, dovecot 1.0.7, I have set up sendmail to use `deliver` for
> my local mda. It keeps giving me this error for the root user though:
> 
> Jul 12 12:51:29 mail sendmail[4105]: o699225f001348:
> to=<root at localhost.localdomain>, ctladdr=<root at localhost.localdomain>
> (0/0), delay=3+08:49:26, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=7502879,
> dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: local mailer (/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver)
> exited with EX_TEMPFAIL
> 
> I've tried to `chmod +s /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver`, which I read
> might fix some of those issues, but it didn't.
> 
> Anyways, here are the important changes I made in my config files for
> using `deliver`:
> 
> == sendmail.mc ==
> ...
> dnl ## Should I modify this??
> define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH', `/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
> ...
> dnl ## Should I have "localhost.localdomain" here? It currently is not.
> LOCAL_DOMAIN(`mydomain.com')
> ...
> FEATURE(`local_procmail',
> `/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver',`/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d $u')
> MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `-f')
> ...
> MAILER(smtp)
> MAILER(procmail)
> MAILER(local)
> == END ==
> 
> == dovecot.conf ==
> ...
> protocol lda {
>   postmaster_address = postmaster at mydomain.com
>   hostname = mydomain.com
> }
> == END ==
> 
> Any ideas, or do you need more information?

Hi,

Just a thought, but do you really want mail for root to be handled directly?

You can alias it in /etc/aliases or similar like this;

root: bradleelandis at gmail.com

Then run the command "newaliases" to update alias table. I've not used 
sendmail for years, but that's how I'd do it for postfix.

Regards,

Arne
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