DBMAIL-LMTPD(8)                                                DBMAIL-LMTPD(8)

NAME
       dbmail-lmtpd - receive messages from an MTA supporting the Lightweight
       Mail Transport Protocol, as specified in RFC 2033.

SYNOPSIS
       dbmail-lmtpd [-f configfile] [-p pidfile] [-nvVh]

DESCRIPTION
       Mail Transfer Agents, MTA's such as Postfix and Exim, speak LMTP to
       their Mail Delivery Agents which receive and store messages. DBMail
       implements such a system using a database backend.

OPTIONS
       -p pidfile
           Specify an alternate pid file. By default the daemons use
           dbmail-<daemon>.pid for their pid files, saving them in the
           directory specified by the pid_directory entry in dbmail.conf or if
           that does not exist the value set by the configuration option
           --localstatedir, and will halt if the pid file cannot be written.
           Use the -p pidfile option to place the pid file in your system's
           preferred location.

       -n
           No daemonize: inetd mode. The program remains attached to the
           console from which it was started and will read and write on
           stdin/stdout. This is quite useful for debugging when combined with
           the -v option. It is also used for running from (x)inetd.

       -D
           No daemonize: init mode. The program remains attached to the
           console and will listen on the network sockets defined in
           dbmail.conf. This is mostly used when running from inittab or under
           the control of daemontools.

COMMON OPTIONS
       -f configfile
           Specify an alternate config file. The utilities are currently
           hardcoded to use /etc/dbmail.conf for their configs, and will halt
           if the config file cannot be found. Use the -f configfile option to
           specify your system's preferred config file location. Debian is
           patched to have /etc/dbmail/dbmail.conf as the default.

       -q
           Quietly skip interactive prompts and helpful status messages which
           would otherwise be printed to stdout. Use two -q's to silence
           errors which would otherwise be printed to stderr.

       -v
           Operate verbosely. Some of the utilities in the DBMail suite can
           take two -v's for extra verbosity. Those which don't understand
           this convention won't complain about having the extra -v and will
           simply operate at their normal verbosity.

       -V
           Show the version and copyright, then exit.

       -h
           Show a brief summary of options, then exit.

BUGS
       If you experience inexplicable problems with DBMail, please report the
       issue to the DBMail Bug Tracker[1].

LICENSE
       DBMail and its components are distributed under the terms of the GNU
       General Public License. Copyrights are held variously by the authors
       listed below.

AUTHOR(S)
       DBMail is a collaborative effort among the core developers listed below
       and the tremendous help of the testers, patchers and bug hunters listed
       in the AUTHORS and THANKS files found in the DBMail source
       distribution.

           Alan Hicks          Persistent Objects Ltd https://p-o.co.uk
           Eelco van Beek      Aaron Stone            Paul J Stevens
           Roel Rozendaal      Open Source Engineer   NFG Net Facilities Group BV
           Ilja Booij          Palo Alto, CA USA      http://www.nfg.nl
           IC&S                http://hydricacid.com
           http://www.ic-s.nl

NOTES
        1. DBMail Bug Tracker
           https://github.com/dbmail/dbmail/issues

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