lmtp versus deliver

[Philip Chambers]

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.

Phil.
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Phil Chambers (postmaster at exeter.ac.uk)
University of Exeter

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