On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Gary W. Smith wrote:
> Wesley,
>
> I'm on the final stretch. I have mailboxes seen at all angles. If I telnet
> to the frontend I can see the backend mailboxes on both servers. Yay. The
> problem now is delivery. I tried setting up lmtpproxyd but I get some errors
> and the email gets queued up on the frontend server. This is fine for now
> while we have the mail going to the proper places on the backend but going
> forward we will need to be able to deliver via the frontend (or murder
> server).
>
> on the frontend:
> /etc/cyrus.conf
> lmtp cmd="lmtpproxyd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=0
>
> /var/lib/imap/socket
> srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 9 19:38 lmtp
>
> mailq contains:
> (host mdsfe[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp] said: 451 4.4.3 Remote server
> unavailable (in reply to end of DATA command))
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that lmtp will be used
> to deliver the message from the frontend to the backend (thus bypassing
> postfix in this case). When I do a netstat -atunep on the backend server, I
> don't see the lmtp port open. I would assume that this could be part of the
> problem.
>
> On the backend servers, we have this line in the /etc/cyrus.conf
>
> lmtpunix cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=1
> I've also tried
> lmtp cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=1 (with
> prefork 0 and 1 -- example show zero).
That should probably be:
lmtp cmd="lmtpd" listen="lmtp" prefork=1 maxchild=100
You want one of them to listen on the lmtp network socket, rather than
both listening on the lmtp unix socket.
Andy
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