How to hand over mails from postfix to cyrus

[Joakim Ryden]

The pipe(8) man page is a good, short and easy read. The LMTP_README
that comes with Postfix also has lots of good tips and stuff in it.

--Jo

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 18:26, Oliver Demetz - Hardware-XPress.de wrote:
> Hi!
> I searched for hours now for a documentation on how postfix hands over
> mail to cyrus.
> 
> An Example:
> I want to host an emailadress xxx at xyz.com.
> This Mail shall be stored in a mailbox called xxx-xyz-com for
> example. So, how can I tell postfix and cyrus to do that???
> 
> What I already found out:
> 
> The commandline, which is executed by Postfix (defined in master.cf)
> is:
> pipe user=cyrus argv=/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -r ${sender} -m ${extension} ${user}
> so, deliver is told to store the mail into a mailbox. My question:
> what's the value of $extension and $user???
> Is $user always = cyrus (as defined at the beginning of the line?
> Why do I even need to specify a user? Wouldn't it be enough to tell imap the
> destination-mailbox?
> And, in the case that user is cyrus, from where takes postfix the
> password for cyrus to authenticate against cyrusimapserver???
> 
> I'm really confused.
> Please help me getting light into the dark!
> 
> So long and really BIG THANKS to all of you in advance!
> 
> Oliver Demetz
> 
> 
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