postfix delivers to the user, and I don't do lmtp authentication, I
just submit the email from postfix to lmtp.
I'm not even sure how you can use lmtp authentication to verify a
delivery address, normally when postfix uses lmtp the email was
accepted, and therefor would generate a bounce.
I can't find anything that wouldn't bounce using lmtp, in postfix or
dovecot documentation.
Quoting jake0534@airpost.net:
Hey,
On Monday, October 10, 2011 7:46 PM, "Patrick Domack" patrickdk@patrickdk.com wrote:
I always keep it seperate, the user table is used by dovecot only, and the alias table is used by postfix.
And then for users, you just alias them to themselfs. Then everything exists in the alias table, and postfix knows all valid users, cause they all exist in the alias table.
I just think of it as, user accounts, and email addresses that map to the user accounts.
So you're not using LMTP authentication to verify that Postfix is trying to deliver to a valid user? I though that's what it was for.
In your setup, 'who' does Postfix try to deliver to, then? The 'real' user, after figuring out and remapping any aliases to it? Or to the alias, and then Dovecot does the remapping?
Jake