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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 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 cur-
rently 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 <dovecotATdovecot.org>. Information about report-
ing bugs is available at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html

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