paul@963 | 1 | = Mailbox Integration = |
paul@963 | 2 | |
paul@963 | 3 | Use of the imip-agent software should not affect the solutions chosen to store |
paul@963 | 4 | mail received by your mail system. However, the software does support direct |
paul@963 | 5 | connections to mail storage solutions employing the LMTP protocol. See the |
paul@963 | 6 | [[../MailIntegration/LMTP|LMTP guide]] for more information. |
paul@963 | 7 | |
paul@963 | 8 | It can, however, be useful to see how delivery to various kinds of mailboxes |
paul@963 | 9 | and mail storage is done, in case you have not already decided on a particular |
paul@963 | 10 | solution. |
paul@963 | 11 | |
paul@963 | 12 | == Cyrus == |
paul@963 | 13 | |
paul@963 | 14 | [[http://www.cyrusimap.org/|Cyrus]] is a mail storage system that exposes |
paul@963 | 15 | mailboxes using the [[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501|IMAP]] protocol. |
paul@963 | 16 | |
paul@963 | 17 | == Dovecot == |
paul@963 | 18 | |
paul@963 | 19 | [[http://dovecot.org/|Dovecot]] is a mail server that supports IMAP and |
paul@963 | 20 | [[http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1939|POP3]]. It can be configured to serve |
paul@963 | 21 | mail stored in traditional mailbox formats. |
paul@963 | 22 | |
paul@963 | 23 | The Dovecot documentation provides guides for integrating Dovecot with |
paul@963 | 24 | [[http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP/Exim|Exim]] and with |
paul@963 | 25 | [[http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixDovecotLMTP|Postfix]]. |
paul@963 | 26 | |
paul@963 | 27 | Example configuration files for Exim and Dovecot are distributed in |
paul@963 | 28 | `conf/exim/lmtp`: |
paul@963 | 29 | |
paul@963 | 30 | {{{#!table |
paul@963 | 31 | '''File''' || '''Purpose''' |
paul@963 | 32 | == |
paul@963 | 33 | `30_exim4-config_dovecot_lmtp` |
paul@963 | 34 | || Delivers messages to Dovecot via LMTP |
paul@963 | 35 | == |
paul@963 | 36 | `890_exim4-config_dovecot_lmtp_local` |
paul@963 | 37 | || Routes messages for local system users to Dovecot |
paul@963 | 38 | }}} |
paul@963 | 39 | |
paul@963 | 40 | On Debian systems, the former file would be copied into the |
paul@963 | 41 | `/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport` directory, whereas the latter would be |
paul@963 | 42 | copied into the `/etc/exim4/conf.d/router` directory. The latter file is |
paul@963 | 43 | appropriate only if system user identities are to be employed for mail. |