RE: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-23 Thread Mathias Koerber
> > yes, because that's what some postfix documentation suggested doing > > instead of using SMTP again or sharing the mail-dir via NFS. > > Well i do recall somewhere in a qmail documentation that explicitly said > Mailbox's on NFS drives is evil evil pure evil. I could be wrong but > that's

Re: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-23 Thread Werner Reisberger
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:39:45AM -0600, Scott M Likens wrote: > Out of Curiosity does it actually run procmail at all? > > Because i have the same exact thing and guess what. The mail_transport = > cyrus takes priority and kicks out procmail. But i see you changed your > master.cf does pro

RE: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-23 Thread Scott M Likens
--On Tuesday, April 23, 2002 3:31 PM +0800 Mathias Koerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes, because that's what some postfix documentation suggested doing > instead of using SMTP again or sharing the mail-dir via NFS. Well i do recall somewhere in a qmail documentation that explicitly said Ma

Re: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-23 Thread Scott M Likens
Out of Curiosity does it actually run procmail at all? Because i have the same exact thing and guess what. The mail_transport = cyrus takes priority and kicks out procmail. But i see you changed your master.cf does procmail know how to deliver properly to cyrus? and if so how? --On Tuesda

Re: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-23 Thread Birger Toedtmann
Andrew Heberle schrieb am Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:17:12PM +0800: > You can compile procmail with support to run as a lmtp server. > > Just organise for it to be run from inetd on the mailbox server (or locally > if you only have on box for email), then have deliver run at the end of > procmail's

Re: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-23 Thread Andrew Heberle
You can compile procmail with support to run as a lmtp server. Just organise for it to be run from inetd on the mailbox server (or locally if you only have on box for email), then have deliver run at the end of procmail's rcfile. Lmtp server support has only existed in the last few versions of p

Re: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-23 Thread Birger Toedtmann
Mathias Koerber schrieb am Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:26:37PM +0800: > > AFAIK cyrus' lmtpd(8) is highly integrated with the rest of the cyrus > > software, you cannot invoke procmail at this point any more. The "fix" > > would be to relay the mails via SMTP, set up a small postfix on the > > cyrus

RE: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-23 Thread Mathias Koerber
> Ok, so you want Postfix to send it to another server via LMTP, yes, because that's what some postfix documentation suggested doing instead of using SMTP again or sharing the mail-dir via NFS. > yet you want Cyrus to answer > the LMTP call and send it to procmail. That makes No sense. If

RE: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-23 Thread Mathias Koerber
> AFAIK cyrus' lmtpd(8) is highly integrated with the rest of the cyrus > software, you cannot invoke procmail at this point any more. The "fix" > would be to relay the mails via SMTP, set up a small postfix on the > cyrus box and do procmail then. But this enhances the complexity of > your setu

Re: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-23 Thread damm
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:59:18PM +0800, Mathias Koerber wrote: > I think there's some misunderstanding. I want postfix on the SMTP server > to accept incoming mails, then use LMTP to forward it to the mailbox (IMAP) > server. There I would like to find a way for lmtpd to call procmail > for loc

Re: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-23 Thread Birger Toedtmann
Mathias Koerber schrieb am Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:59:18PM +0800: [...] > > I want it the other way around: lmtp to accept the incoming local mails > from thepostfix server on the other machine, and then to invoke procmail > for final delivery.. > > or am I totally off-base here? AFAIK cyrus' l

RE: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-22 Thread Mathias Koerber
> Use the simplest way to do this, use cyrus' deliver(8). In short, deliver > _is_ just an LMTP client. Your advantage: sendmail can give the mail to > procmail, which can hand it over to deliver after processing, > which in turn > will hand it to the underlying lmtpd. I think there's some misu

Re: lmtp and procmail

2002-04-22 Thread Birger Toedtmann
Mathias Koerber schrieb am Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:47:19AM +0800: > Hi all, > > I am planning to install Cyrus IMAPs on my main mailbox server. The SMTP > server > accepting mail from the outside world will be a different system running > postfix. > I am considering using lmtp for local transport