Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 8:33:33 PM, Gene wrote:
I use a lot of plus-style addresses (me+stuff@example.com), except I use underscore as the separator rather than plus (me_stuff@example.com). My mail logs are full of messages where dovecot looks for a mailbox named "stuff", fails, then delivers to my inbox. Is there a way to turn that off so that dovecot automatically delivers to my inbox?
Turn it off just for you? or globally?
The underscore as the separator is defined within your Postfix main.cf config file. From your logs below, it uses the Dovecot deliver with the '-m ${extension}' parameter. If you remove the '-m "${EXTENSION}' parameter from the Postfix master.cf config file, that will eliminate extension (folder) delivery for the entire server.
From the Dovecot deliver man page:
-m mailbox
Destination mailbox (default is INBOX). If the mailbox doesn't
exist, it will not be created (unless the lda_mailbox_autocreate
setting is set to yes). If a message couldn't be saved to the
mailbox for any reason, it's delivered to INBOX instead.Thanks!
Here are the details:
dovecot --version 1.2.15
dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.38-8-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.04 info_log_path: /dev/null log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/server.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/server.key ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock imap_client_workarounds: outlook-idle delay-newmail lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@xxxxxxxxx.com postmaster_address: postmaster@xxxxxxxxx.com mail_plugins: sieve quota_full_tempfail: yes deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ rejection_reason: Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r postmaster_address: postmaster@xxxxxxxxx.com mail_plugins: sieve quota_full_tempfail: yes deliver_log_format: msgid=%m: %$ rejection_reason: Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve
cat ~/.dovecot.sieve require ["regex","fileinto"];
if header :regex ["X-Bogosity"] ["^ *Spam,"] { fileinto "caughtspam"; stop; }
# excerpt from mail.log: postfix/pipe[32255]: BE4FCE24069: to=gene_att@xxxxxxxxxx.com, relay=bogo_filter, delay=1.2, delays=0.13/0.01/0/1.1, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via bogo_filter service) postfix/qmgr[28916]: BE4FCE24069: removed postfix/cleanup[32254]: DBA1EE2406E: message-id=1310331364610.sdc.29057010.18396.155116668@connect2.wireless.att-mail.com postfix/qmgr[28916]: DBA1EE2406E: from=sdc.29057010.18396.155116668@connect2.wireless.att-mail.com, size=7859, nrcpt=1 (queue active) dovecot: deliver(gene): sieve: msgid=1310331364610.sdc.29057010.18396.155116668@connect2.wireless.att-mail.com: failed to store into mailbox 'att': Mailbox doesn't exist: att dovecot: deliver(gene): sieve: script /home/gene/.dovecot.sieve failed with unsuccessful implicit keep dovecot: deliver(gene): msgid=1310331364610.sdc.29057010.18396.155116668@connect2.wireless.att-mail.com: save failed to att: Mailbox doesn't exist: att dovecot: deliver(gene): msgid=1310331364610.sdc.29057010.18396.155116668@connect2.wireless.att-mail.com: saved mail to INBOX postfix/local[32261]: DBA1EE2406E: to=gene_att@xxxxxxxxxx.com, relay=local, delay=0.05, delays=0.01/0.01/0/0.03, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -c /etc/dovecot/conf.d/01-dovecot-postfix.conf -n -m "${EXTENSION}") postfix/qmgr[28916]: DBA1EE2406E: removed
-- Best regards, Duane mailto:duane@duanemail.org