[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA and "undeliverable" emails

[Seth Mattinen]

Kat Wisnosky wrote:
> Timo wrote:
> 
>> So Postfix delivers bounces to everyone by calling Dovecot LDA
>> separately for each bounce? Looks like a Postfix configuration problem
>> to me.
> 
> I should have been more specific... because we'd also changed domain
> names at the time we moved over to using Dovecot as the LDA, I
> temporarily disabled automatically bouncing mail addressed to invalid
> users because I figured that we'd have at least one who decided that
> they didn't want the standard formation of email addresses...  What I'd
> wanted to happen was for Postfix to accept the message(s) and then for
> them to be delivered to the postmaster address so that I could address
> the issue.
> 
> I'm still unsure as to why, when Dovecot couldn't find the user in the
> tables, it copied the message to every user of the system - that seems
> like odd behavior, which indicates that even though the system is
> "working", I need to fine-tune something.
> 

Dovecot didn't do that, Postfix executed those "deliver" instances.

~Seth