From: Patrick Welche (no email)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 13:33:12 EST
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:18:50AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
..
> Hmmm. I think this may have something to do with the method being used to
> get the messages from Exim to Cyrus.
>
> There are (at least) four ways to do that:
>
> 1) Exim can pipe the messages to the Cyrus "deliver" command.
>
> 2) The Exim LMTP transport can deliver to Cyrus' lmtpd over a Unix socket.
>
> 3) The Exim LMTP transport can deliver to Cyrus' "deliver" command via a
> pipe.
>
> 4) The Exim SMTP transport (in LMTP protocol mode) can deliver to Cyrus'
> lmtpd over a TCP/IP socket, with or without SMTP authentication.
>
> I am currently using method 4. I don't have time to test the different
> methods to see how they handle caseful local parts, and there could
> certainly be a bug in Exim in the LMTP transport. When I first set up Exim
> 4.x, I was using method 3 and most definitely had to lowercase local parts
> before sending them to Cyrus.
>
Ah - I'm using
cyrus_delivery:
driver = lmtp
command = "/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver -l"
batch_max = 20
user = cyrus
as per the cyrus documentation which I think counts as 3)...
Cheers,
Patrick
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