[Dovecot] deliver to subfolder with dovecot's LDA

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 21:58 +0100, Koen Vermeer wrote:
> 
> > > I have this setup like that, although without the -f and -m
> options.
> > > Anyway, it seems that postfix first tries to run deliver with
> > > $recipient=joe+spam, and deliver happily creates a new mailbox
> 'joe
> > > +spam'. Any idea how to solve this?
> > > The postfix documentation says it first tries to deliver to 'joe
> > > +spam',
> > > and then to 'joe'. I'm not sure why deliver just accepts the user
> +ext
> > > name, and creates a new folder. 
> > Creates a new user joe+spam, or creates a mailbox "joe+spam" into
> joe's
> > mailboxes?
> 
> A new folder with the name "joe+spam" into the virtual domains folder.
> I
> guess that's what you call a new user. The mail doesn't arrive in
> joe's
> mailbox, or anywhere in his maildir. 

What's your userdb configuration? It looks like it doesn't check the
user's existence at all. If you're using for example static userdb then
this happens..

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