On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 01:20:55AM +0100, Christian Benke wrote:
I've been trying to configure Dovecot to work as LDA for file-based virtual users with Postfix.
Some part in the configuration seems to miss though, as mails are received by Postfix, but instead of giving it to Dovecot for delivery, it delivers the mails itself.
Perhaps surprisingly, this is a Postfix issue, not a Dovecot one.
Postfix drops the mail in /var/mail/<user>/mbox, if Dovecot would be called, it should deliver it to /var/vmail/<domain>/<user>/Maildir.
I've made sure to add the dovecot-service to postfix/master.cf according to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix and tried all kinds of settings and did quadruple checks for errors.
I'm using Debian 6.0 with Dovecot 2.1.7(From backports) and Postfix 2.7.1
I've been trying to figure out what's missing for a few hours now and have to give up for today. I hope someone can help me with a hint what's missing or wrong :-/
Here's an excerpt from my mail.log, my postconf -n and dovecot -n:
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Mar 17 00:02:46 poab postfix/local[15341]: 66AD04E23EE: to=<benkkk AT example.com>, relay=local, delay=0.35, delays=0.3/0.01/0/0.04, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
This is postfix/local, which means it is not being routed to your virtual_transport. It means example.com is in mydestination.
Mar 17 00:02:46 poab postfix/qmgr[14844]: 66AD04E23EE: removed
# postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases append_dot_mydomain = no biff = no broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes config_directory = /etc/postfix debug_peer_level = 3 inet_interfaces = all inet_protocols = all mailbox_size_limit = 5120000000 myhostname = example.com
... You did not even set mydestination, thus you get the default. You really should review the Postfix Basic Configuration README:
http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html
Perhaps you'd be better off without the virtual mailboxes anyway?
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