[Dovecot] Using Dovecot LDA with Sendmail

Gerhard Wiesinger
Sat, 31 Mar 2007 06:07:22 -0000

Hello!

Another method is to use normal procmail and use deliver with my procmail
patch.

See:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-March/020787.html

Ciao,
Gerhard


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On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Scott Peron wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After looking at the LDA/Sendmail page in the dovecot wiki, I wanted to
> contribute another method to easily configure Sendmail to use deliver.
> Instead of adding a new mailer definition, as already suggested, one can
> simply use the following line in their sendmail.mc file instead:
>
>  FEATURE(`local_procmail', `/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver', `deliver
-d $u',
> `SPhnu9')dnl
>
> And further on, still use:
>
>  MAILER(procmail)dnl
>
> The location of deliver will of course vary for each OS and distro, etc,
but
> this redefines the "procmail" mailer in the resulting sendmail.cf
to use
> deliver instead, with the correct flags.  For most setups, I believe this
is
> the simplest configuration path.
>
> Scott
>
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