dbmail-lmtpd - receive messages from an MTA supporting the
Lightweight Mail Transport Protocol, as specified in RFC 2033.
dbmail-lmtpd [-f configfile] [-p pidfile] [-nvVh]
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.
-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.
-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.
If you experience inexplicable problems with DBMail, please report
the issue to the DBMail Bug Tracker[1].
DBMail and its components are distributed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License. Copyrights are held variously by the authors
listed below.
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