Timo Sirainen wrote:
deliver is the binary name.
a) deliver binary, protocol deliver {}
The problem I have with the deliver name in general is that there is a
pre-existing LDA project[1] with the same name, and even within the
scope of the Dovecot mailing list, it isn't a unique term, so it
Daniel L. Miller wrote:
"deliver" has nothing to do with the listening daemons. So having the
"lda" configuration in the dovecot.conf file might be inappropriate - I
would suggest splitting that off to a "dovecot-lda.conf" file (or
whatever you change the delivery agent name to).
I found the
Timo Sirainen wrote:
deliver doesn't use base_dir at all.
Hmmm...looks like it came about due to needing a different
authentication configuration between IMAP and deliver, which led to a
different auth process and necessitated a separate base_dir. The two run
directories are clearly differen
I'm converting over a virtual user installation that used Postfix and
maildrop with a MySQL back-end for mailbox lookups to use Dovecot LDA.
The maildrop setup used a database table like:
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| address | owner
