dbmail-lmtpd8
The lmtp daemon receive messages from an mta supporting the lightweight mail transport protocol, as specified in rfc 2033.
Usage
dbmail-lmtpd [--config
configfile]
[--pidfile
pidfile]
dbmail-lmtpd [--config
configfile]
[--pidfile
pidfile]
--no-daemon
dbmail-lmtpd [--config
configfile]
[--pidfile
pidfile]
--inetd
Overview
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
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-p, --pidfile 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.
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-n, --no-daemon -
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 useful for debugging when combined with the -v option. It is also used for running from (x)inetd.
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-D, --inetd -
No daemonize: The program remains attached to the console and will listen on the network sockets defined in dbmail.conf. This is mostly used for xinetd (Extended Internet Service Daemon)
Options
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-f, --config configfile -
Specify an alternate config file.
Use dbmail-<utility> --help to show the default location.
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-q, --quiet -
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.
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-v, --verbose -
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.
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-V, --version -
Show the version and copyright, then exit.
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-h, --help -
Show a brief summary of options, then exit.
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://www.ic-s.nl
Notes
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DBMail announce mailing list
https://dbmail.org/wws/info/dbmail-announce/
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DBMail general mailing list
https://dbmail.org/wws/info/dbmail-general/
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DBMail Bug Tracker
https://github.com/dbmail/dbmail/issues
Releases
3 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 1 time.
--config since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--help since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--inetd since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--no-daemon since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--pidfile since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--quiet since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--verbose since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--version since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
-D since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.