DOVECOT-LDA(1) Dovecot DOVECOT-LDA(1) NAME dovecot-lda - Dovecot's local mail delivery agent SYNOPSIS dovecot-lda [-ek] [-a address] [-c config_file] [-d username] [-f enve- lope_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 ex- ist, it will not be created (unless the lda_mailbox_autocreate set- ting 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 /usr/local/etc/dove- cot/dovecot.conf and from the userdb with the given value. In order to override multiple settings, the -o option may be specified multi- ple 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 possi- ble. This allows a single mail to be delivered to multiple users using hard links, but currently it also prevents deliver from updat- ing 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_NOP- ERM) 75 A temporary failure. This is returned for almost all failures. See the log file for details. (EX_TEMPFAIL) FILES /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Dovecot's main configuration file. /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf Mailbox locations and namespaces. /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-lda.conf LDA specific settings. /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf Plugin specific settings. /usr/local/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 Dovecot v2.3 2011-01-16 DOVECOT-LDA(1)
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