Hi Doug,

"home" from your userdb query will dictate where mail will be dropped.

If you want to store in /var/mail/home_mail/, then use %n. You were almost there with /%d/%n in your current configuration, posted below, just remove the %d completely.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables

The domain part is added by postfix. Postfix most often requires some kind of domain, and if not added will append one (unless you have an unorthodox configuration). It's not recommended to remove this feature from your postfix configuration.

/Tobias

On 2016-06-17 16:10, Doug Hardie wrote:

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On 16 June 2016, at 22:53, Doug Hardie bc979@lafn.org wrote:

I am running a small server with a fixed number of users. Postfix is using dovecot lda so that I can run pigeonhole. I have setup a user file with the ids and passwords and everything authenticates properly. Postfix uses that also. However, mail is consistently delivered to user@domain. How do I tell it to deliver to just user? I have tried setting a variety of different things like:

10-mail.conf:mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/home_mail/%u

userdb { driver = static args = uid=2222 gid=2222 home=/var/mail/home_mail/%u }

and a few other things. None of them affected the mailbox location.
Fortunately, this is a test system as I probably have mucked up the config files by now.

— Doug

here is config:

root@test:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d # doveconf -n # 2.2.22 (fe789d2): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.13 (7b14904) # OS: FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE amd64 ufs auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose_passwords = yes base_dir = /var/run/home_mail/ first_valid_gid = 0 login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c %k session=<%{session}> port=%a mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 2222 mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/home_mail/%u mail_uid = 2222 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size from } postmaster_address = doug@sermon-archive.info protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert =

— Doug