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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 17:36:47 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 17:36:47 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 1:2.3.21+dfsg1.upstream/1%2.3.21+dfsg1
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/doc/man/dovecot-lda.1.in b/doc/man/dovecot-lda.1.in new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f8033b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/man/dovecot-lda.1.in @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2010-2018 Dovecot authors, see the included COPYING file +.TH DOVECOT\-LDA 1 "2011-01-16" "Dovecot v2.3" "Dovecot" +.SH NAME +dovecot\-lda \- Dovecot\(aqs local mail delivery agent +.\"------------------------------------------------------------------------ +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B dovecot\-lda +.RB [ \-ek ] +[\fB\-a\fP \fIaddress\fP] +[\fB\-c\fP \fIconfig_file\fP] +[\fB\-d\fP \fIusername\fP] +[\fB\-f\fP \fIenvelope_sender\fP] +[\fB\-m\fP \fImailbox\fP] +[\fB\-o\fP \fIsetting=value\fP] +[\fB\-p\fP \fIpath\fP] +.\"------------------------------------------------------------------------ +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B dovecot\-lda +is a local mail delivery agent which takes mail from an MTA and delivers +it to a user\(aqs mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index files up to date. +.PP +Main features of the +.B dovecot\-lda +are: +.TP 4 +* +Mailbox indexing during mail delivery, providing faster mailbox access +later +.TP +* +Quota enforcing by the quota plugin +.TP +* +Sieve language support by the Pigeonhole sieve plugin +.\"------------------------------------------------------------------------ +.SH OPTIONS +Options accepted by +.BR dovecot\-lda : +.\"------------------------------------- +.TP +.BI \-a\ address +Destination address (e.g. user+ext@domain). Default is the same as +.IR username . +.\"------------------------------------- +.TP +.BI \-c\ config_file +Alternative configuration file path. +.\"------------------------------------- +.TP +.BI \-d\ username +Destination +.IR username . +If given, the user information is looked up from userdb. +Typically used with virtual users, but not necessarily with system users. +.\"------------------------------------- +.TP +.B \-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. +.\"------------------------------------- +.TP +.BI \-f\ envelope_sender +Envelope sender address. +.\"------------------------------------- +.TP +.B \-k +Don\(aqt clear all environment at startup. +.\"------------------------------------- +.TP +.BI \-m\ mailbox +Destination mailbox (default is +.BR INBOX ). +If the mailbox doesn\(aqt exist, it will not be created (unless the +.I lda_mailbox_autocreate +setting is set to +.BR yes ). +If a message couldn\(aqt be saved to the +.I mailbox +for any reason, it\(aqs delivered to +.B INBOX +instead. +.\"--------------------------------- +.TP +.BI \-o\ setting = value +Overrides the configuration +.I setting +from +.I @pkgsysconfdir@/dovecot.conf +and from the userdb with the given +.IR value . +In order to override multiple settings, the +.B \-o +option may be specified multiple times. +.\"------------------------------------- +.TP +.BI \-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\(aqt be used unless really necessary. +.\"------------------------------------------------------------------------ +.SH "EXIT STATUS" +.B dovecot\-lda +will exit with one of the following values: +.TP 4 +.B 0 +Delivery was successful. (EX_OK) +.TP +.B 64 +Invalid parameter given. (EX_USAGE) +.TP +.B 77 +.B \-e +option was used and mail was rejected. +Typically this happens when user is over quota and +.B quota_full_tempfail = no +is configured. (EX_NOPERM) +.TP +.B 75 +A temporary failure. This is returned for almost all failures. See the log +file for details. (EX_TEMPFAIL) +.\"------------------------------------------------------------------------ +.SH FILES +.TP +.I @pkgsysconfdir@/dovecot.conf +Dovecot\(aqs main configuration file. +.TP +.I @pkgsysconfdir@/conf.d/10\-mail.conf +Mailbox locations and namespaces. +.TP +.I @pkgsysconfdir@/conf.d/15\-lda.conf +LDA specific settings. +.TP +.I @pkgsysconfdir@/conf.d/90\-plugin.conf +Plugin specific settings. +.TP +.I @pkgsysconfdir@/conf.d/90\-quota.conf +Quota configuration. +.\"------------------------------------------------------------------------ +@INCLUDE:reporting-bugs@ +.\"------------------------------------------------------------------------ +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR doveadm (1), +.BR dovecot (1), +.BR doveconf (1), +.BR dsync (1) +.PP +Related MTA specific documentation: +.\"------------------------------------- +.TP +Postfix: +.BR postconf (5), +.BR transport (5), +.BR pipe (8) +.\"------------------------------------- +.PP +Exim: +.IP "The accept router" +http://exim.org/exim\-html\-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch16.html +.IP "Generic options for transports" +http://exim.org/exim\-html\-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch24.html +.IP "The pipe transport" +http://exim.org/exim\-html\-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch29.html |