Re: dovecot-lda as local mailer and access to manage sive

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Yeah, 10 years ago I was probably modifying or instructing others how to
modify sendmail.cf rulesets on a weekly basis. But, I haven't done that
for a while so I am a bit rusty and apparently not determined enough
this time around to push it through. I can live with what I have for
now. I may come back to it if I get more determined.

Again thanks

Thanks
Chris Kottaridis

On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 02:37 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Chris Kottaridis <chriskot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > I want to be careful about dinking with rules. That was what I
> > originally tried. What I wanted was some users to use dovecot-lda for
> > delivery and others to use the standard mailer. For example I really
> > want root to still go to /var/mail as well as other non-real users. So,
> > I added the dovecot mailer and was dinking with rules sets to have root
> > to use local mailer and other users resolve to dovecot mailer. I got
> > quite entangled in the whole thing. I was close but couldn't quite get
> > there. For now I am content with root ending up in /var/vmail.
> 
> Yeah, that can get tricky, and requires a fair bit of sendmail knowledge
> to do right.  I have a setup where the default local mailer is dovecot,
> but users can choose to get procmail (all mail is delivered to users
> with system accounts); the choice is stored in a custom field in an LDAP
> directory.  Since I haven't really tested and pushed sieve use yet, the
> only server-side filtering is via procmail.
> 
> Of course, I've been writing sendmail rulesets for about 15 years now,
> so it's second nature to me.  sendmail.cf really isn't just line noise!
> :-)
> 
> -- 
> Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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