[Dovecot] Dovecot not delivering mail.

[Anthony Nedland]

Anthony Nedland wrote:
> Charles Marcus wrote:
>> On 2010-01-05 7:05 AM, Thomas Wolf wrote:
>>  
>>> Charles Marcus schrieb:
>>>    
>>>> Question: if you use an alternate location for the config file, and
>>>> start dovecot with that config file properly, does plain 'dovecot -n'
>>>> output what is in the config file that is in use? Or the one in the
>>>> default location?
>>>>       
>>
>>  
>>> It's the default location:
>>>
>>> tw at mail2:~$ pgrep -lf dovecot
>>> 28900 /usr/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf
>>> 28901 dovecot-auth
>>> tw at mail2:~$ dovecot -n
>>> # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>>> Error: Can't open configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: No such
>>> file or directory
>>> Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>>> tw at mail2:~$
>>>     
>>
>> Ouch... that adds a big wrinkle to troubleshooting, especially if a file
>> *does* exist at the default location...
>>
>>   
> Ok I have a new development.
> When I try to send to a user in my domain from a domain other than my 
> own I get an error.
>
> For example, I sent to duane at baldtel.com from an external address. The 
> server returned the error 'user duane does not exist' in the form of 
> an undeliverable bounce back email.
>
> When I configure outlook for the user and when I log in on telnet, I 
> have to use duane at baldtel.com as the user to log into the server. I 
> assume this means that the username is actually 'duane at baldtel.com' 
> rather than duane. I know that when I usually set up pop3 in outlook 
> with other servers I would just put the part before the @ on the email 
> into the server information field (user/pass). This means that with 
> other servers the username actually would have been duane usually.
>
> I only get this message back when sending from another server. When I 
> send from my server, the email appears to have gone out. It just never 
> arrives.
>
>

OK I checked the table info in mysql. It says under the 'mailbox' table 
that the username is duane at baldtel.com and that the domain is 
baldtel.com. Shouldn't the username field be duane? Based on the 
messages I have above, it seems this may be causing the problem. If that 
is the case, how would I change what is inserted into the table? I am 
using postfixadmin to create users. Does this mean it would be a matter 
of changing files related to postfixadmin, or is there still a place in 
dovecot configurations where I would need to change something?