Dovecot writing to mailbox user at domain

[mourik jan heupink - merit]

Hi John,

I'm guessing your problem is:
 > mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%u/Maildir

%u means 'username', and perhaps this serves you better:
%n: User part in user at domain, same as %u if there's no domain.

so:
mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%n/Maildir

I've had this same problem too

MJ

On 10/06/2014 06:38 PM, John Oliver wrote:
> centOS 6.5, dovecot-2.0.9-7.el6_5.1.x86_64
>
> This is frustrating, because I had it working before... I could deliver
> an email to a user user at domain, then connect to dovecot IMAP and see the
> mail, no problem!  Then I was told we had to use cyrus, and I was
> dealing with it for a few weeks.  Now we're back to dovecot, and the
> last backup I had of that config has postfix delivering mail to
> /var/vmail/username as I want and expect, but dovecot looks for and
> creates /var/vmail/user at domain which I DON'T want
>
> [joliver at test ~]$ dovecot -n
> # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.5 (Final) ext4
> auth_username_format = %Lu
> mail_access_groups = mail
> mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%u/Maildir
> mail_privileged_group = mail
> mbox_write_locks = fcntl
> passdb {
>    driver = pam
> }
> passdb {
>    args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
>    driver = ldap
> }
> protocols = imap
> ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> userdb {
>    driver = passwd
> }
> userdb {
>    args = uid=504 gid=505 home=/var/vmail/%u
>    driver = static
> }
> [joliver at test ~]$ cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
> hosts = localhost
> auth_bind = no
> ldap_version = 3
> debug_level = 0
> default_pass_scheme = SSHA
> base = ou=Users,dc=test,dc=com
> scope = subtree
> pass_filter = (&(objectClass=user)(uid=%u))
> pass_attrs = mail=user,userPassword=password
>