Re: cyrus imapd ingestion of email

Marco Moock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:13:46 -0400
schrieb [email protected]:

> As I'm getting further into my first installation of cyrus imapd, I
> see that it uses LMTP to receive messages from the SMTP server. Is
> this the only way to get mail into cyrus imapd?
> 
> I'm currently running dovecot, and it works from mbox files directly.
> If I need to use LMTP, I need to figure out how to get that mail into
> imapd. Is there a utility somewhere for this?

The MTA can handle that.
I use sendmail and it has a cyrusv2 mailer that uses LMTP. You only
need to tell it the path to the socket on some systems.
2-3 lines in the configuration.
https://www.cyrusimap.org/3.4/quickstart.html#install-sendmail

Other MTAs support LMTP too.

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