I'm trying to use Dovecot as the LDA for local mail delivery out of
SMTPD in 5.4-RELEASE, but I'm having some difficulty. (I want Sieve
support, which smtpd doesn't have natively.)
smtpd is willing todeliver mail to mboxes, maildirs, other smtp servers,
and the dovecot LDA, so the problem appears isolated to LMTP.
Firstly, although the smtpd.conf manpage documents "deliver to lmtp
[host:port | socket]", there's no documentation on the URI format for
the socket option. Through trial and error, it appears to be
"socket:///absolute/path/to/socket", but this still doesn't actually
work for me.
Secondly, the only way I can see ANY information whatsoever about MDA
failures appears to be if I run "smtpd -d -v" at the command-line. Even
with syslog reconfigured to log mail.* events, smtpd doesn't appear to
log anything about MDA/LDA/LMTP failures.
Thirdly, with "deliver to lmtp socket:/var/dovecot/lmtp", I get this
error: delivery: TempFail for fa75e116051e0c9b:
from=<r...@mail.customhosting.ca>, to=<r...@mail.customhosting.ca>,
user=notroot, method=lmtp, delay=18m45s, stat=Error ("smtpd: service not
supported for ai_socktype")
I finally got "deliver to mda" with dovecot-lda working so I'm in
reasonable shape for now, but I'm baffled by what I did wrong with LMTP
configuration.
Any ideas on what the correct syntax might be, or if this is just a bug?
Thanks,
-Adam
