Re: Dovecot-lda for vpopmail

Quoting Alessio Cecchi <[email protected]>:

> Il 24/09/2012 16:57, Rick Romero ha scritto:
>>
>> Quoting Alessio Cecchi <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Il 24/09/2012 15:34, Rick Romero ha scritto:
>>>> Heres a patch for 5.4.17 - I've been running this for a while now.
>>>>
>>>> Basically, run the deliver command after the tempfile is created  
>>>> (to verify delivery and quota) then unlink the tempfile and  
>>>> return.  I tried to make it all fancy with build options, then  
>>>> figured I was the only one who would do it this wacky way.  :)
>>>>
>>>> This version passes the home directory to deliver, so you don't  
>>>> need to run the dovecot lookup service.
>>>> I also had to specify the timezone to get the correct timestamp  
>>>> for some reason.
>>>>
>>>> Rick
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Rick!
>>>
>>> your patch is very helpful for me, also passes the HOME to deliver  
>>> is a good idea.
>>>
>>> Another useful options, for delivery, will be to add the  
>>> "extension" via "-m mailbox" so dovecot will deliver the email  
>>> directly in this folder (if vpopmail is build with  
>>> enable-qmail-ext).
>>>
>>> An email to alessio-vpopml@ will be delivery to the "vpopml" folder.
>>>
>>> In the enviroment, what is the variable for the "extension" (vpopml)?
>>
>> There is none at the point deliver is called - by the time it gets  
>> called, all the qmail-ext work has been done so the HOME directory  
>> is the correct user's Maildir directory.  'deliver' just needs to  
>> drop the email into that location and update the indexes.  That's  
>> what I was shooting for.  Besides using qmail-ext, I still have old  
>> vacation and forwards that I didn't want to worry about.  
>> vdelivermail still handles all of that.  I just wanted deliver to  
>> update indexes on delivery.
>>
>> I hadn't thought about it - but the version of Dovecot on my  
>> front-end servers that do delivery is still in the 1.2 series.  So  
>> there may be some slight differences if you're running 2.0 deliver.
>>
>> Rick
>
> I'm using dovecot 2.1 with native auth-vpopmail. With 1.2 native  
> auth-vpopmail have some limits.
>
> My idea is to run dovecot-lda like:
>
> /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d $EXT@$HOST -m $Extension
>
> where if original recipient is [email protected] Extension is  
> "lists", but in vpopmail environment how is called "Extension" (if  
> is present)?

I don't think that's right - according to the Dovecot Wiki -m is  
Mailbox.  Like INBOX or Trash, etc..
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA

If you wish to use Dovecot's mailbox lookup, you can just use:
/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d $EXT@$HOST

I don't use thatt, what's why I pass the HOME variable.

Rick



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