-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+aladdin=csunv.com@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot- bounces+aladdin=csunv.com@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Aladdin Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 12:53 AM To: 'Stephan Bosch' Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Lost %d variable
OK- and thanks again.
I'll check this out in detail tomorrow, but regarding "Also take a look at the MTA-specific pages...", I basically cut and pasted them into my exim4 conf file. I'll go through this in detail and post again.
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces+aladdin=csunv.com@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot- bounces+aladdin=csunv.com@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Bosch Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 8:15 PM To: anw-dist@infoisland.net Cc: Aladdin; dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Lost %d variable
On 9/12/2010 6:14 PM, Aladdin wrote:
Thanks, Stephan, for the quick reply.
Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the problem. I don't have any of the configuration options set to which that wiki page refers and I'm not using SQL; furthermore, I set the "auth_debug" variable which that page also recommended and it does not show any modification of the user/domain variables. My logs and errors are identical to those on my OP.
What else could be the problem?
I must say I haven toyed with this for a long time.
Well, clearly LDA is using a bare username and not username@domain.tld. Now I am interested in how dovecot-lda is called from your MTA (e.g. from Exim/Postfix/Qmail). Particularly these arguments are interesting (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA):
-d <username>: Destination username. If given, the user information is looked up from dovecot-auth. Typically used with virtual users, but not necessarily with system users. -a <address>: Destination address (e.g. user+ext@domain). Default is the same as username.
Also take a look at the MTA-specific pages referenced from the LDA wiki page for examples.
Regards,
Stephan.
Sorry about the top posts; I thought that was netiquette for this list, but was reminded on another list, and now see that this list doesn't top post either.
OK, I've checked this out, and *seemed* to fix it. I've move on to a new error, but will not hijack my own thread. However, this fix has raised a couple of questions.
I'm using exim4 with strictly system users. As stated earlier, I just cut-and-pasted the section from the wiki into my exim4 file, so I started out with this entry:
command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver
which according to the wiki should work. Based on this response, I changed it to this, which was cut from the *Virtual Users* section of the wiki:
command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d $local_part@$domain -f $sender_address -a $original_local_part@$original_domain
This raises several questions, so, in the interest of fooling myself into believing I understand this, I'm going to ask them:
As printed in the wiki and quoted by Stephan, the documentation says, "-d <username>: Destination username. If given, the user information is looked up from dovecot-auth. Typically used with virtual users, but not necessarily with system users." So, why did I have to use it here?
Why do the -f and -a switches have to be given? Aren't those things unchanged in the mail header?
TIA, Allen