[Dovecot] dovecot deliver mail bounce problem

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Oct 29 17:25:05 EET 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 17:57 +0530, Dhaval Thakar wrote:
> but when mail is sent to invalid user, it gets bounced back with error 
> "I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too 
> long." rather "no mailbox here by that name"
..
> Oct 24 23:03:27 backup dovecot: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND     1

dovecot-auth successfully figures out that the user doesn't exist.

> .qmail-default
> |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -n -e -d 
> $EXT@$USER

Try manually running:

/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -n -e -d blabla
echo $?

What does the echo print? If it prints 67, the problem isn't deliver but
qmail.

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