usage of recipient delimiters

[Christian Kivalo]

Hi,

Am 15. November 2015 01:46:29 MEZ, schrieb fsantiago at garbage-juice.com:
>Hello,
>
>I have a forum system which can potentially have users send email to it
>
>for posting purposes that arrives addressed to a particular user
>account 
>with a recipient delimiter:
>
>user+1a2b3c4d5e6f at domain.com
>
>The forum server is supposed to check the "user" account mailbox's
>inbox 
>for the messages and post them to the site automatically. This doesn't 
>work right now because when the messages arrive, they get placed into a
>
>newly and automatically created folder named after the alpha numeric 
>string after the + in the address (eg... 1a2b3c4d5e6f).
>
>I feel dovecot is likely doing this. any ideas why and how i can shut 
>this off and just allow them to arrive and stay in the inbox?
>
>My version is:
>
>2.2.10
>
>My config is:
>
># 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
># OS: Linux 4.1.5-x86_64-linode61 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 

...

>userdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf
>   driver = sql
>}
>protocol lda {
>   auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>   lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes

With this setting in 15-lda.conf nonexistant folders are automatically created

>   lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes
>   log_path = /var/log/dovecot-sieve.log
>   mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl sieve
>   postmaster_address = root
>}
>protocol lmtp {
>   info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lmtp.log
>   lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes

Tries to save to the detail mailbox when a recipient address contains the detail. look at in 20-lmtp.conf

>   mail_plugins = quota sieve
>   postmaster_address = postmaster
>   recipient_delimiter = +
>}
>protocol imap {
>   imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep
>   mail_max_userip_connections = 20
>   mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl imap_quota imap_acl
>}
>protocol pop3 {
>   mail_max_userip_connections = 20
>   mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl
>   pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
>   pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
>}
>
>
>Thank you.
>
>- Fabian S.

Regards
Christian