procmail - lmtp - cyrus

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Ekkehard Burkon wrote:

> AFIK it is possible to get procmail to accept LMTP via
> a compile time switch but there is no way to get procmail
> to deliver via LMTP.
>
> The deliver program that comes with cyrus is only capable
> of handling LMTP via unix domain socket but I need it
> over TCP/IP.
>
> What I need is a little program that I can put into a
> procmail script which then in turn delivers via LMTP
> over TCP/IP.

Fix deliver to make it a full LMTP client?

Really, you're talking about a horribly inefficient delivery path here
(atleast 2 forks, not counting the [potential] fork of lmtpd, or
whatever your MTA does to accept the incoming mail in the first place).

-Rob

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