[Dovecot] Why : dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 ?
Markus Schönhaber
dovecot at list-post.mks-mail.de
Mon Nov 2 15:19:51 EET 2009
Koenraad Lelong:
> I'm trying to activate sieve. In all tutorials I have seen I need to set
> dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 in Postfix's main.cf. Can anyone
> explain why ?
> I like to know because when I set this and the dovecot transport in
> Postfix, I'm having problems when aliasses are used that map to
> different recipients, i.e. info at ... results in user1 at ..., user2 at ...,
> etc. The problems are an error from Postfix :
> Oct 30 09:25:19 lace3 postfix/pipe[19729]: 8A77E2D5B5B:
> to=<some.body at some.where.org>, relay=dovecot, delay=2390,
> delays=2390/0.04/0/0.01, dsn=4.3.5, status=deferred (mail system
> configuration error)
> Oct 30 09:25:19 lace3 postfix/pipe[19729]: warning: pipe flag `D'
> requires dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1
Well, the last message says it all: you've instructed postifx' pipe to
add a "Delivered-To" header field to the message. And this obviously
can't work when delivering one message to multiple recipients in one pass.
See also:
http://www.postfix.org/pipe.8.html
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Regards
mks
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