I think I just fixed the problem but I am not sure if I did it the right way.. It seems that it is postfix that did it, not dovecot. I found this in the log for every local message...
Sep 26 11:10:10 zeus postfix/local[14565]: 9B0294AA15E: to=vmail@my.domain.com, orig_to=<vmail>, relay=local, delay=9, delays=9/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
So, I went to the postfix master.cf and commented out this line...
#local unix - n n - - local
Was that the correct way to do it?
On 9/27/2013 12:32 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Mike Edwards wrote:
The messages that come from cron and other system stuff that address messages to root@my.host.name or to ownerOfCronJob@my.host.name
Nobody will everah, local messages. You still want to make sure in the MTA, these addresses are rejected from outside, to prevent spammers using them.
I did just find a way to put in a forward to forward everything to root@my.host.name to a virtual box and now the messages have stopped for that
Check out if your MTA handles catch-all aliases or forwards for the whole domain.
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