lmtp versus deliver

[Ken Murchison]

Philip Chambers wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:00:34 -0500 Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Philip Chambers wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This is cyrus-imap.2.2.8 with exim-4.41:
>>>
>>>I had been using lmtp to do normal deliveries but deliver to deliver to specific 
>>>folders (as for spam being diverted to a spam-folder.
>>>
>>>I noticed in my exim logs that at busy times I was getting a few failures from the 
>>>deliver program (logged as error code 75 or 65 by exim).  Can someone tell me what 
>>>these two codes mean?
>>>
>>>On reflection I thought that I might be able to use lmtp to deliver to specific 
>>>folders instead by using "user.folder-name at dom.ain" as the address.  I tried this 
>>>and it worked. An advantage of this is the benefit of multiple deliveries in one go.
>>>
>>>However, I have now found a difference which it would be nice to remove:
>>>
>>>Using deliver to deliver to "user.folder", if the folder does not exist, it delivers 
>>>to the user's inbox.  Using lmpt, if the folder does not exist, it rejects the 
>>>message.
>>>
>>>Is it possible to get lmtp to deliver to the inbox if the specified folder does not 
>>>exist?
>>
>>Either I'm confused or you're using the incorrect syntax.  To deliver to 
>>a user-specific folder via LMTP, the address should be 
>>user+folder at dom.ain.  If the folder doesn't exist (or doesn't allow 
>>posting by the [un]authenticated user, then the message *will* go to the 
>>  user's INBOX.
> 
> 
> Thanks for that information, as you say, using plus as the separator delivers to the 
> folder if there is a suitable acl or to the inbox if not.
> 
> Using a dot to separate the username and foldername certainly works and the delivery 
> takes place without any acl on the folder.

Hmm, its probably because you are running deliver as the recipient user 
and the mailbox name is taken literally (as the internal name).

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