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DOVECOT-LDA
Section: Dovecot (1)
Updated: 2011-01-16
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NAME
dovecot-lda - Dovecot's local mail delivery agent
SYNOPSIS
dovecot-lda
[-ek]
[-a address]
[-c config_file]
[-d username]
[-f envelope_sender]
[-m mailbox]
[-o setting=value]
[-p path]
DESCRIPTION
The
dovecot-lda
is a local mail delivery agent which takes mail from an MTA and delivers
it to a user's mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index files up to date.
Main features of the
dovecot-lda
are:
- *
-
Mailbox indexing during mail delivery, providing faster mailbox access
later
- *
-
Quota enforcing by the quota plugin
- *
-
Sieve language support by the Pigeonhole sieve plugin
OPTIONS
Options accepted by
dovecot-lda:
- -a address
-
Destination address (e.g. user+ext@domain). Default is the same as
username.
- -c config_file
-
Alternative configuration file path.
- -d username
-
Destination
username.
If given, the user information is looked up from userdb.
Typically used with virtual users, but not necessarily with system users.
- -e
-
If mail gets rejected, write the rejection reason to stderr and exit with
status 77 (EX_NOPERM).
The default is to send a rejection mail ourself.
- -f envelope_sender
-
Envelope sender address.
- -k
-
Don't clear all environment at startup.
- -m mailbox
-
Destination mailbox (default is
INBOX).
If the mailbox doesn't exist, it will not be created (unless the
lda_mailbox_autocreate
setting is set to
yes).
If a message couldn't be saved to the
mailbox
for any reason, it's delivered to
INBOX
instead.
- -o setting=value
-
Overrides the configuration
setting
from
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
and from the userdb with the given
value.
In order to override multiple settings, the
-o
option may be specified multiple times.
- -p path
-
Path to the mail to be delivered instead of reading from stdin.
If using maildir the file is hard linked to the destination if possible.
This allows a single mail to be delivered to multiple users using hard
links, but currently it also prevents deliver from updating cache file so
it shouldn't be used unless really necessary.
EXIT STATUS
dovecot-lda
will exit with one of the following values:
- 0
-
Delivery was successful. (EX_OK)
- 64
-
Invalid parameter given. (EX_USAGE)
- 77
-
-e
option was used and mail was rejected.
Typically this happens when user is over quota and
quota_full_tempfail = no
is configured. (EX_NOPERM)
- 75
-
A temporary failure. This is returned for almost all failures. See the log
file for details. (EX_TEMPFAIL)
FILES
- /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
-
Dovecot's main configuration file.
- /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
-
Mailbox locations and namespaces.
- /etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-lda.conf
-
LDA specific settings.
- /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf
-
Plugin specific settings.
- /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-quota.conf
-
Quota configuration.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs, including
doveconf -n
output, to the Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org>.
Information about reporting bugs is available at:
http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
SEE ALSO
doveadm(1),
dovecot(1),
doveconf(1),
dsync(1)
Related MTA specific documentation:
- Postfix:
-
postconf(5),
transport(5),
pipe(8)
Exim:
- The accept router
-
http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch16.html
- Generic options for transports
-
http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch24.html
- The pipe transport
-
http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch29.html
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- OPTIONS
-
- EXIT STATUS
-
- FILES
-
- REPORTING BUGS
-
- SEE ALSO
-
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