Sahil Tandon wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Depending upon who you talk to, members of my family being prime
example, I am illiterate, not only that but I constantly astound some
the younger member of my tribe by being able to walk and talk at the
same time.
