[Dovecot] LMTP/Sieve/sendmail path

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 03.06.2011 11:09, schrieb Andreas Schulze:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a system using postfix multi instance feature.
> The first, main postfix-instance is a nullclient as suggested by
> http://www.postfix.org/MULTI_INSTANCE_README.html#split
> 
> The second instance is for real use. Postfix receive mail and handover them
> to the dovecot lmtp server.
> 
> Thats working.
> 
> The lmtp server supports sieve. One account has activated a vacation rule.
> So while delivering a mail to this account, dovecot creates a new mail based on the vacation rules.
> 
> *This one* fail. It is injected in the main postfix instance, which is wrong in this case.
> 
> I tried to start dovecot with an additional environment MAIL_CONFIG=/etc/postfix-instance2
> and enabled alternate_config_directories in main.cf of the first insance.
> ( http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#alternate_config_directories )
> I also configured the userdb to return an extrafield userdb_mail_config=/etc/postfix-instance2.
> 
> But all produce strance postfix errors I never saw in my last 6 years as postfix-admin.
> 
> Would it be possible to configure dovecot lmtp server to use an external smtp-server to submit
> new mails ?
> 
> Any other Ideas ?
> 
> Thanks
> Andreas
> 

i guess you should ask at the postfix mail list
cause this should be could fixed with postfix
anyway
there is
http://www.acme.com/software/mini_sendmail/
---sni
Add -s flag to let you specify an SMTP server
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maybe you can use it as workaround

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Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria