virtual users, mailer daemon send mails to non existant recipient and dovecot store it
Aki Tuomi
aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Tue Aug 23 16:08:50 UTC 2016
> On August 23, 2016 at 6:57 PM Sam <sr42354 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Sometime when we receive a spam or virus that is detected as it, mailer
> daemon send a reply to the sender to inform that the message is a spam
> or content viruses.
>
> The problem is that the sender of the spam as something like
> voicemail at ourdomain.fr ( the user voicemail doesn't exist in our database )
>
> And sometimes dovecot create the directory and store the reply 's mail...
>
>
<snip/>
>
> I don't understand why I don't have the same behavior that when I send a
> mail to a non existant address ( <tottttt at ourdomain.fr>: Recipient
> address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table )
>
> How can I fix it?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Samuel
Please provide doveconf -n output.
Aki
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