Postfix Ignoring lmtp, delivering straight to maildir

[Doug Barton]

I considered sending to the postfix list instead, and would be happy to 
do that if it's more appropriate.

In regards to your suggestion, I've tried local_transport and 
mailbox_transport, but both result in mail bouncing because "User 
doesn't exist." I've added my virtual_maps file to local_recipient_maps, 
and that still doesn't work.

I did get the expected result with local_transport though (delivered to 
lmtp). So I'll keep poking that a bit.

Thanks!

Doug


On 03/15/2017 10:16 AM, chaouche yacine wrote:
> Hello Doug,
> First off since this is a postfix configuration problem I beleive it would be better suited in the postfix mailing list. The way I understand it is that you are editing the virtual transport map when you should be changing the local transport map because you are delivering to a normal, system user, not a virtual user. Try and see if that works for you.
>   -- Yassine.
>
>
>     On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 6:12 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> wrote:
>
>
>  First I'd like to thank all the developers and contributors to dovecot.
> I've been using it for many years, and deeply appreciate your fine work. :)
>
> dovecot --version
> 2.2.22 (fe789d2)
>
> I have a working installation with postfix and dovecot, and I want to
> add sieve to it, so I am trying to configure postfix to use lmtp instead
> of 'virtual' for its delivery service. However it is ignoring that
> request, and for every message I get "status=sent (delivered to
> maildir)" and it shows up in my Inbox.
>
> On my mail host I have 1 normal user, let's say the username is
> 'myuser'. I have postfix configured to accept mail for several different
> domains, and each domain has a lot of different mail usernames (I use
> this for mailing lists and such). I use the virtual_maps feature of
> postfix, and have a map file that looks like this:
>
> abuse at dougbarton.us myuser
> hostmaster at dougbarton.us myuser
> dougb at dougbarton.us myuser
> ...
>
> All of this works great, and mail for all the different usernames and
> domains gets delivered into my one real user's Maildir, and I can see
> the mail with my IMAP clients.
>
> I've configured sieve in dovecot, and I can see the socket for lmtp in
> /var/spool/postfix/private/. I can also see the managesieve port in
> netstat, and I can use a sieve client to connect to it and edit scripts,
> etc.
>
> So according to all the tutorials I've read my next step is this in
> postfix' main.cf:
>
> virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp
>
> which I did, and postfix restarts with no errors. But, it seems to avoid
> lmtp altogether, and as I mentioned above it delivers straight to my
> Maildir Inbox every time.
>
> I do have a sieve file, and the ~/dovecot.sieve symlink exists. I
> created a very simple filter:
>
> require ["fileinto", "imap4flags"];
>
> if header :contains "Subject" "test"
> {
>   fileinto "Junk";
> }
>
> which my sieve client says is correct syntax. Still no joy. :-/
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome. (And sorry this is so long, but
> based on my extensive searches it seems my configuration is a bit
> unique, so I explained it in some length.)
>
> Doug
>
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