"Frank Behrens" <fr...@ilse.behrens.de> wrote: > Andrzej Adam Filip <a...@onet.eu> wrote on 21 Oct 2009 9:21: >> It is possible to "significantly" twist sendmail.cf use $h to select >> dovecot's mailbox and $u to pass user+det...@domain (one *or many*). >> [ BTW the way I think about will make sendmail support "aliases with >> domains" instead of current "aliases after domain stripping"] >> >> It is not a big deal if: >> * all dovecot's mailboxes are owned by single non root OS account >> * sendmail is supposed to start dovecot-deliver with root privileges >> >> P.S. >> I have written a few sendmail.cf recipients intended to support more >> than "one and the only" local mailer. > > Fine, it sounds promising. So I will see, what I can do with a > modified rule set. May be it's a good idea to have a special dovecot > local mailer with matching envelope rewriting rules.
[ I will continue sendmail related discussion in news:comp.mail.sendmail ] Dovecot's design issues to consider are as follows: a) making dovecot support hash/btree/dbm maps for passwd/userdb [AFAIR Timo stated it is too complicated to be "cost effective" from his perspective] b) making dovecot support sendmail's "socket map" protocol for checking mailbox existence The simple protocol is described in semdmail's doc/op/op.me file http://www.sendmail.org/doc/sendmail-current/doc/op/op.pdf c) making dovecot support LMTP protocol via unix socket -- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : a...@onet.eu Prototype designs always work. -- Don Vonada