"Frank Behrens" <fr...@ilse.behrens.de> wrote: > When I upgraded my old, long running dovecot 1.1 to newer dovecot-1.2.4 + > doevecot-sieve- > 0.1.12 I observed a change in destination address (-a) parsing. > > Old behaviour: > When Timo introduced this feature > (http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-September/025813.html) > it was possible to hand over only the detail part. In my sendmail > configuration I used "-a +$h", > where $h contains the detail part and may be empty. By default sendmail can > call the delivery > agent with the following information: > $u: The recipient user (always set) > $h: Detail part, may be empty > $g: The sender address (relative to the recipient). > > New behaviour: > The current sieve version needs a complete address with local- and > domain-part. Otherwise we get a warning like > deliver(user): sieve: envelope recipient address 'user' is unparseable. > > The problem is, that the domain part is not always available, e.g. for > local delivered emails. This is the main problem, although the setup > could be simplified if deliver would accept the old syntax. I'm going > to make modifications to sendmail to be able to have all address > information available, but this will not solve the problem with > missing domain. > > Now comes my question: Is it better to enhance the address parsing in > sieve plugin or should I use a wrapper around deliver? The latter is > not very difficult, but introduces an additional process (that may > fail).
It is possible to "significantly" twist sendmail.cf use $h to select dovecot's mailbox and $u to pass user+det...@domain (one *or many*). [ BTW the way I think about will make sendmail support "alises with domains" instead of current "aliases after domain stripping"] It is not a big deal if: * all dovecot's mailboxes are owned by single non root OS account * sendmail is supposed to start dovecot-deliver with root privileges P.S. I have written a few sendmail.cf recipients intended to support more than "one and the only" local mailer. -- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : a...@onet.eu CF&C stole it, fair and square. -- Tim Hahn
