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DOVECOT-LDA(1)			    Dovecot			DOVECOT-LDA(1)

NAME
       dovecot-lda - Dovecot's local mail delivery agent

SYNOPSIS
       dovecot-lda [-ek] [-a address] [-c config_file] [-d username] [-f enve‐
       lope_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 nec‐
	      essarily 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/dove‐
	      cot.conf and from the userdb with the given value.  In order  to
	      override	multiple settings, the -o option may be specified mul‐
	      tiple 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
       <dovecot@dovecot.org>.	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

Dovecot v2.2			  2011-01-16			DOVECOT-LDA(1)
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