fetchmail and cyrus lmtp

Belgabor belgabor at gmx.de
Wed Jun 4 15:27:43 EDT 2003


Etienne Goyer wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:07:34AM +0200, belgabor at gmx.de wrote:
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>>I'm running lmtpd via TCP since I never got it to work with sockets.
>>Probably just 'smtphost ""' should be enogh to make it work.
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>I vaguely remember the post you made recently concerning this problem
>(lmtpd does not work with socket).  I just had a flash concerning this.
>If you are running RedHat with Postfix, you must know that Postfix is
>being runned chroot'ed.  So you will need to create the socket somewhere
>in Postfix's root, say /var/spool/postfix/etc/lmtpd, and refer to it as
>/etc/lmtpd in Postfix config.  
>
>Anyway, just a thought. 
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That might be the reason why it didn't work =) Anyways for my my current 
need i bypass postfix completely using spamassassin via the mda option 
of fetchmail. As it currently runs perfectly with TCP I stick to the old 
'never change a running system' policy.

Cheers
Tobias





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