DBMAIL-LMTPD(8)

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🎀 dbmail-lmtpd 🎀 <small>(that's section 8 of the manual, bestie — DBMAIL-LMTPD(8))</small>

okay so picture this: it's giving "the LMTP daemon that receives messages from an MTA supporting the Lightweight Mail Transport Protocol, as specified in RFC 2033." That's the whole vibe. Let's get into it 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dbmail-lmtpd [--config configfile] [--pidfile pidfile]
dbmail-lmtpd [--config configfile] [--pidfile pidfile] --no-daemon
dbmail-lmtpd [--config configfile] [--pidfile pidfile] --inetd

three whole ways to launch her, pick your fighter 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like — Mail Transfer Agents, aka MTA's such as Postfix and Exim, they speak LMTP to their Mail Delivery Agents, and those MDAs are the ones who actually receive and store the messages. And DBMail? DBMail implements exactly that kind of system, except the backend is a database. iconic behavior, no cap. 💖

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -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 she will halt if the pid file cannot be written 😭. So use the -p pidfile option to place the pid file in your system's preferred location.
  • -n, --no-daemon — No daemonize: inetd mode. The program stays 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. literally the "keep your eyes on it" mode 👀
  • -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). different flag, similar energy, don't mix them up bestie 🙈

💜 COMMON OPTIONS 💜

  • -f, --config configfile — specify an alternate config file.

Use dbmail-<utility> --help to show the default location. (yes, utility, swap in whichever one you're running, iykyk)

  • -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. double -q = full stealth mode 🥷
  • -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. so go ahead and spam it, she's chill about it ⭐
  • -V, --version — show the version and copyright, then exit.
  • -h, --help — show a brief summary of options, then exit.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

dbmail(1), dbmail.conf(5), dbmail-deliver(1), dbmail-export(8), dbmail-httpd(8), dbmail-imapd(8), dbmail-lmtpd(8), dbmail-pop3d(8), dbmail-sieved(8), dbmail-sievecmd(8), dbmail-users(8), dbmail-util(8)

the whole friend group, go say hi 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

  • For the latest announcements, please subscribe to the DBMail announce mailing list[1]
  • For general discussion, please subscribe to the DBMail general mailing list[2]
  • If you experience an issue with DBMail, please report it on the DBMail Bug Tracker[3]. It may be helpful to have a debug log available. (translation: bring receipts, it helps so much 🫶)

👑 LICENSE 👑

DBMail and its components are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. Copyrights are held variously by the authors listed below. free software, real ones know 💅

🧚 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. group project energy fr fr 🌸

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Alan Hicks <ahicks@p-o.co.uk> — Author.

🍓 NOTES 🍓

  1. DBMail announce mailing list — https://dbmail.org/wws/info/dbmail-announce/
  2. DBMail general mailing list — https://dbmail.org/wws/info/dbmail-general/
  3. DBMail Bug Tracker — https://github.com/dbmail/dbmail/issues
ok that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💖 go forth and deliver some mail, the database backend is rooting for you 🦋

and that's a wrap! this lil masterpiece is dated 08/28/2026, living in DBMAIL-LMTPD(8) — same section 8, same name, just with way better vibes ✨ mwah 💋

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