[Dovecot] From Sendmail to Dovecot mdbox, what is missing.

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Steffen Kaiser
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 1:02 AM
To: Dovecot Mailing List
Cc: Torpey List
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] From Sendmail to Dovecot mdbox, what is missing.

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>On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Torpey List wrote:
>
>>>> Dovecot-lda – I have had issues getting it configured.
>>>
>>> What issues? If you were trying to get the LDA to deliver to /var/mail,
>>> it's possible you were running into permissions problems. The best
>>> solution is to deliver into the mdbox instead, or just leave Sendmail to
>>> deliver to /var/mail.
>>>
>>>> Sendmail changes
>>>> FEATURE(`local_procmail',
>>>> `/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda',`/usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda
>>>> -d $u')
>>>> MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', `-f')
>>>> MAILER(procmail)dnl
>
>
>I do use:
>FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/etc/mail/smrsh/dovecot-deliver',
>`/etc/mail/smrsh/dovecot-deliver -f $g -d $u -m $h')dnl
>
>Note, you need a symlink in your "smrsh"-directory anyway.

This appears to have been my road block.  Mail has started moving, so now I 
need to do testing to make sure everything else is working.

I knew that I was missing a detail.

Thank you so much,
Steve 



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