Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-22 Thread chaouche yacine
All clear ! thanks. On Friday, March 17, 2017 5:19 PM, Thomas Leuxner wrote: * chaouche yacine 2017.03.17 14:52: > Thank you Thomas, so if I understand correctly in Viktor's config dovecot is > only used by postfix as a backend to query for valid virtual email addresses ? Hi Yassine

Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-17 Thread Thomas Leuxner
* chaouche yacine 2017.03.17 14:52: > Thank you Thomas, so if I understand correctly in Viktor's config dovecot is > only used by postfix as a backend to query for valid virtual email addresses ? Hi Yassine, one of the benefits of using Dovecot's MDAs besides Sieve, is that they update the me

Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-17 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Mar 17, 2017, at 9:52 AM, chaouche yacine wrote: > > Thank you Thomas, so if I understand correctly in Viktor's config dovecot is > only used by postfix as a backend to query for valid virtual email addresses ? Dovecot is used as an IMAP server. Postfix does maildir delivery. --

Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-17 Thread chaouche yacine
Thank you Thomas, so if I understand correctly in Viktor's config dovecot is only used by postfix as a backend to query for valid virtual email addresses ?

Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-17 Thread Thomas Leuxner
* chaouche yacine 2017.03.17 10:25: > > Or similar, yes. I have: > > > >userdb { > >args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/spool/virtual > > mail=maildir:/var/spool/virtual/%n > >driver = static > >} > > > Sorry for asking this on a postfix list but Viktor it seems all your users >

Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-17 Thread chaouche yacine
On Thursday, March 16, 2017 4:09 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: >> The problem is then getting dovecot to understand what to do with that >> fully qualified user once it gets it. For my case, since the 'user' that >> postfix is mapping to is the same as the local Unix user I want it delivered >> to,

Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-16 Thread Doug
On Thu, 3/16/17, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: Subject: Re: Problems with lmtp To: postfix-users@postfix.org Date: Thursday, March 16, 2017, 8:08 AM On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 08:56:20AM +, Doug wrote: > >  The important thing to understan

Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-16 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 08:56:20AM +, Doug wrote: > > >      $ postconf -d mail_version > > >  > > > Yes, 3.1.0, thank you. > > > > Cool.  I would expect that this likely contains backports of later > > patches, but unfortunately the Linux distros tend to avoid backporting > > upstre

Updating Postfix was: Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-16 Thread Scott Kitterman
On March 16, 2017 1:15:54 AM EDT, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: >On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 04:02:58AM +, Doug wrote: > >>     $ postconf -d mail_version >> >> Yes, 3.1.0, thank you. > >Cool. I would expect that this likely contains backports of later >patches, but unfortunately the Linux distro

Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-16 Thread Doug
Good news is that I solved the short term problem (delivery via lmtp now works). More below. Lots of snipping to strip out what turned out to be the irrelevant bits. On Wed, 3/15/17, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: Subject: Re: Problems with lmtp To

Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-15 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 04:02:58AM +, Doug wrote: >     $ postconf -d mail_version > > Yes, 3.1.0, thank you. Cool. I would expect that this likely contains backports of later patches, but unfortunately the Linux distros tend to avoid backporting upstream version number updates, so it is

Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-15 Thread Doug
[ apologies to everyone for the formatting below, the Yahoo! webmail client is simply awful ] On Wed, 3/15/17, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: Subject: Re: Problems with lmtp To: postfix-users@postfix.org Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 7:29 PM On Thu

Re: Problems with lmtp

2017-03-15 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 02:06:37AM +, Doug wrote: > [ Trying this again as I think I sent to the wrong address the first time ] FWIW, it got through both times. On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 02:01:07AM +, Doug wrote: > I'm on Ubuntu Server 16.04 (up to date) and using the stock postfix packag

Problems with lmtp

2017-03-15 Thread Doug
[ Trying this again as I think I sent to the wrong address the first time ] Greetings, First I'd like to say thank you to all of the developers and contributors to Postfix. I've used it for many years with great success and happiness. :) I'm on Ubuntu Server 16.04 (up to date) and using the sto