Re: LMTP via socket (was: "virtual" local users)

[Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:02:05PM +0400, Alexander Voropay wrote:
> Matti Aarnio [mailto:mea@nic.funet.fi] wrote:
....
> >P.S. As far as I understand, Zmailer and Cyrus-IMAPd both
> >can support local mail delivery via LMTP protocol well.
> >So, I'll try to map _all_ 'localmail' to lmtp-smtp/* .
> 
>  I have a serious problem to integrate Zmailer and Cyrus-IMAPd
> to perform delivery via LMTP.
> 
>  The main trouble : LMTP delivery in Cyrus-IMAPd via Inet-socket
> MUST be authentificated as 'cyrus' (or other IMAP administrator).
> However, you sholdn't be authentificated while LMTP delivery via
> local Unix-socket (the Cyrus `deliver` programm is just a front-end
> for this local Unix-socket)
... 
>  Cyrus-IMAP LMTP daemon can support both Inet- and Unix- sockets.

So can ZMailer smtp too.  See the '-F' option in  smtp(8zm) man-page.
     -F UNIX:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp


> === cyrus.conf ===
> # UNIX sockets start with a slash and are put into /var/lib/imap/sockets
> SERVICES {
>   # at least one LMTP is required for delivery
>   lmtp          cmd="lmtpd" listen="lmtp" prefork=0
>   lmtpunix      cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp" prefork=1
> ===============
> --
> -=AV=-

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/Matti Aarnio	<mea@nic.funet.fi>
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