[Dovecot] LMTP over STDIN/STDOUT (non root user)

[Timo Sirainen]

On 15.8.2011, at 11.30, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:

> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 23:34 +0200, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
>>>  lmtp program seems to accept custom configuration file (-c _file_).
>>>  The file specifies both passdb and userdb using Passwd-file.
>>>  How to make lmtp skip attempts to contact auth server?
>> 
>> Well, since LMTP by design is intended to deliver mails to multiple
>> users, which requires userdb lookup, this is kind of a kludgy way to
>> use it.
> 
> LMTP offers *also* a sensible way to reduce number of execution of
> deliver program, does not it? :-)

Depends on how you're intending to run it. If you can manage to keep the session open between mail deliveries, then it'll work, but I don't really know how you could do that.

>> If you really want to, you can do it by patching the LMTP sources:
>> 
>> --- a/src/lmtp/main.c   Mon Aug 15 01:18:01 2011 +0300
>> +++ b/src/lmtp/main.c   Mon Aug 15 01:24:39 2011 +0300
>> @@ -81,7 +81,6 @@
>>        enum master_service_flags service_flags = 0;
>>        enum mail_storage_service_flags storage_service_flags =
>>                MAIL_STORAGE_SERVICE_FLAG_DISALLOW_ROOT |
>> -               MAIL_STORAGE_SERVICE_FLAG_USERDB_LOOKUP |
>>                MAIL_STORAGE_SERVICE_FLAG_TEMP_PRIV_DROP |
>>                MAIL_STORAGE_SERVICE_FLAG_NO_LOG_INIT |
>>                MAIL_STORAGE_SERVICE_FLAG_NO_IDLE_TIMEOUT;
> 
> Thank for the patch/consideration.
> 
> Do you intend to include it into official code base sometime in the
> (near) future?

No.