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dovecot-lda(1)

NAME

   dovecot-lda - Dovecot's local mail delivery agent

SYNOPSIS

   dovecot-lda  [-ek]  [-a  address]  [-c  config_file]  [-d username] [-f
   envelope_sender] [-m mailbox] [-o setting=value] [-p path]

DESCRIPTION

   The dovecot-lda is a local mail delivery agent which takes mail from an
   MTA  and  delivers  it to a user's mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index
   files up to date.

   Main features of the dovecot-lda are:

   *   Mailbox indexing during mail  delivery,  providing  faster  mailbox
       access later

   *   Quota enforcing by the quota plugin

   *   Sieve language support by the Pigeonhole sieve plugin

OPTIONS

   Options accepted by dovecot-lda:

   -a address
          Destination  address (e.g. user+ext@domain). Default is the same
          as username.

   -c config_file
          Alternative configuration file path.

   -d username
          Destination username.  If given, the user information is  looked
          up  from  userdb.   Typically  used  with virtual users, but not
          necessarily with system users.

   -e     If mail gets rejected, write the rejection reason to stderr  and
          exit  with  status  77  (EX_NOPERM).   The  default is to send a
          rejection mail ourself.

   -f envelope_sender
          Envelope sender address.

   -k     Don't clear all environment at startup.

   -m mailbox
          Destination mailbox (default is INBOX).  If the mailbox  doesn't
          exist, it will not be created (unless the lda_mailbox_autocreate
          setting is set to yes).  If a message couldn't be saved  to  the
          mailbox for any reason, it's delivered to INBOX instead.

   -o setting=value
          Overrides       the       configuration       setting       from
          /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and from the  userdb  with  the  given
          value.   In  order  to override multiple settings, the -o option
          may be specified multiple times.

   -p path
          Path to the mail to be delivered instead of reading from  stdin.
          If  using  maildir the file is hard linked to the destination if
          possible.  This allows a single mail to be delivered to multiple
          users  using  hard links, but currently it also prevents deliver
          from updating cache file so it shouldn't be used  unless  really
          necessary.

EXIT STATUS

   dovecot-lda will exit with one of the following values:

   0   Delivery was successful. (EX_OK)

   64  Invalid parameter given. (EX_USAGE)

   77  -e  option  was used and mail was rejected.  Typically this happens
       when user is over quota and quota_full_tempfail = no is configured.
       (EX_NOPERM)

   75  A  temporary failure. This is returned for almost all failures. See
       the log file for details. (EX_TEMPFAIL)

FILES

   /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
          Dovecot's main configuration file.

   /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
          Mailbox locations and namespaces.

   /etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-lda.conf
          LDA specific settings.

   /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-plugin.conf
          Plugin specific settings.

   /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-quota.conf
          Quota configuration.

REPORTING BUGS

   Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing  List
   <[email protected]>.   Information  about reporting bugs is available
   at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html

SEE ALSO

   doveadm(1), dovecot(1), doveconf(1), dsync(1)

   Related MTA specific documentation:

   Postfix:
          postconf(5), transport(5), pipe(8)

   Exim:

   The accept router
          http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch16.html

   Generic options for transports
          http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch24.html

   The pipe transport
          http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch29.html



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