Steffen Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 20 Oct 2008 11:46: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Sotiris Tsimbonis wrote: > > > But how do we move the rejection at smtp level using sendmail+dovecot lda? > > When a recipient is valid, the mail is queued locally, then the delivery > attempt is made. That means that the SMTP dialogue has been closed > already, before the MDA is invoked. sendmail has quite a strict separation > between MTA and MDA, or to put it in other words it supports only the > basic Unix-style /var/mail/system_user mboxes natively.
I'm not sure how sendmail handles delivery via LMTP. _May be_ this can improve the situation. Of course, dovecot's deliver must support it. -- Frank Behrens, Osterwieck, Germany PGP-key 0x5B7C47ED on public servers available.
