[Dovecot] need help with dovecot-lda

[Ben Morrow]

At  8PM +0100 on 15/12/12 you (Andreas Meyer) wrote:
> Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Create a script something like this
> > 
> >     #!/bin/sh
> > 
> >     echo "--- FROM [$1] TO [$2]" >>/tmp/lda-log
> >     /usr/bin/id >>/tmp/lda-log
> >     /usr/bin/env >>/tmp/lda-log
> >     exec /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f "$1" -d "$2"
> > 
> > (you may need to adjust the paths to id and env; the point is to avoid
> > relying on $PATH) and change the master.cf entry to invoke
> > 
> >     /path/to/script ${sender} ${recipient}
> > 
> > instead of dovecot-lda. Then deliver some mail and see what, if
> > anything, gets written to /tmp/lda-log.
> 
> Done that, made the script executable, restarted postfix and sent
> two mails from the desktop. The stuck in the queue, no file lda-log
> in /tmp.
> 
> dovecot   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
>    flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/etc/postfix/script.sh ${sender}
>    ${recipient}

OK, then I think the problem is entirely on the Postfix side: it's not
even attempting to deliver the mail to Dovecot. You need to ask on a
Postfix list.

Ben