On Sun, 08 Mar 2009, KLaM Postmaster wrote:
> > Ok, I'm intrigued... if it is this simple, maybe I'll go ahead and do
> > it, but...
> >
> > As I said in an earlier mail, I do NOT want the folder auto-created - if
> > it doesn't exist, I want the message deliver to fall back to the Inbox...
> >
> > Is there a way to tweak the above to accomplish this?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> if you are going to use dovecot as the LDA the setup below is for
> Fedora 10, and virtual delivery
>
> dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
> flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f
> ${sender} -d ${us...@${nexthop} -n -m ${extension}
>
> This straight out of the Dovecot documentation.
> If you want it Dovecot to auto create folders leave out the -n.
> This setup is the one I am using for my Fedora 10 Postfix+Dovecot and
> virtual delivery setup, only two local user on the system me and root.
> It seems to work quit nicely, and according to a number of much cleverer
> people than myself means that all the maildir/Dovecot indexes are kept
> up to date.
+1 for using Dovecot LDA for delivery. And you needn't be clever to know the
benefits; literacy will suffice. From the first line of the documentation:
The Dovecot LDA, called deliver, is a local delivery agent which takes mail
from an MTA and delivers it to a user's mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index
files up to date.
--
Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>
