[Dovecot] postfix+dovecot delivering to wrong (/var/mail/%u) place

[Tom Lobato]

Solved!

after 1000 tries and errors, It works. Below the the configuration made 
(beyond the exposed in first mail):

1) 'local_transport = dovecot' instead 'virtual_transport = dovecot' in 
/etc/postfix/main.cf.

2) '-d ${user}' instead '-d ${recipient}' in /etc/postfix/master.cf.

Without this, postfix was delivering mails to /var/mail/$username (where 
$username is a mbox file per user) instead /usr/local/dovecot/%user 
(where %user is a dir named as mail user, onde dir per user). Also, if 
using '${recipient}' instead '${user}', it was searching user at domain in 
userdb/passdb dovecot database, and not the right, only 'user'.



Tom Lobato


Tom Lobato escreveu:
>
> (Dovecot 1.0.rc15)
>
> Hello I'm tring to configure postfix+dovecot on debian etch.
> In dovecot I use passdb pam and userdb passwd-file. I can connect pop3 
> clients and reveice mails
> and connect smtp clients and send mails, but it is delivered to 
> /var/mail/%u instead the configured
> mailboxes in /var/local/dovecot/%u.
> I`ve configured postfix as say http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix.
>
> /etc/postfix/main.cf:
> -----------------------------------
> smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
> biff = no
> append_dot_mydomain = no
> myhostname = coan
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
> alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
> mydestination = coan.com.br
> myorigin = /etc/mailname
> relayhost =
> mynetworks = 121.120.0.0/16
> mailbox_size_limit = 0
> inet_interfaces = all
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unauth_destination
> virtual_transport = dovecot
> dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1
> -----------------------------------
> belong master.cf.
>
>
> Below the syslog when I send mail via smtp...
>
> /var/log/syslog:
> --------------------------------
> postfix/smtpd[16656]: connect from 
> 201-95-99-135.dsl.telesp.net.br[201.95.99.135]
> postfix/smtpd[16656]: C76F948E3D7: 
> client=201-95-99-135.dsl.telesp.net.br[201.95.99.135]
> postfix/cleanup[16660]: C76F948E3D7: 
> message-id=<1181769218.7844.6.camel at mobile>
> postfix/qmgr[16653]: C76F948E3D7: from=<tom at coan.com.br>, size=457, 
> nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> postfix/local[16661]: C76F948E3D7: to=<tom at coan.com.br>, relay=local, 
> delay=0.52, delays=0.45/0.01/0/0.07, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered 
> to mailbox)
> postfix/qmgr[16653]: C76F948E3D7: removed
> postfix/smtpd[16656]: disconnect from 
> 201-95-99-135.dsl.telesp.net.br[201.95.99.135]
> -------------------------------
>
> If I change 'virtual_transport = dovecot' to 'local_transport = 
> dovecot', syslog output changes relay-local to relay=dovecot, but 
> bounces the mail saying 'passwd-file(tom at coan.com.br): unknown user'. 
> However I'm sure that the user is in the passwd-file and dovecot has 
> permissions to read it.
>
> Can you give some hints about what can be happening?
>
> Dovecot conf:
> -----------------------
> # /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
> protocols: pop3
> disable_plaintext_auth: no
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
> mail_extra_groups: mail mailboxes
> mail_location: maildir:/var/local/dovecot/%u
> mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
> mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
> pop3_uidl_format: %v.%u
> auth default:
>  verbose: yes
>  debug: yes
>  debug_passwords: yes
>  passdb:
>    driver: pam
>  userdb:
>    driver: passwd-file
>    args: /etc/mailsystem/userdb
>  socket:
>    type: listen
>    client:
>    master:
>      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>      mode: 438
> -----------------------
>
>
> Thank you
> Tom Lobato
>