[Dovecot] lmtp error at domains containing "-" sign

[Timo Sirainen]

On 7.2.2011, at 15.01, ckubu wrote:

> Sorry, but now i went into another problem: for _normal_ mailboxes of type 
> name1-name2 at domain.tld, no mail will be delivered. lmtp said "User doesn't 
> exist" - lmtp is looking of user "name1 at domain.tld".
> 
> Is it possible, that for mails, whose local-part contains the 
> recipient_delimeter, lmtp first checks existence of a user with full local 
> part address and afterward, if no user was found, checks local part without 
> extension?

Possible? Yes. Do I want to add such code? Not really. It'll just slow down deliveries for most other people.

> All my problems concerning the recipient parameter are the result of changing 
> mailsystem from qmail+vpopmail (with default mail extension settings) to 
> postfix+dovecot+lmtp (with non standard recipient_delimeter). Maybe you 
> think, thats a very special situation and theres no sense in implementing 
> that to dovecot. that would be ok too.

I wonder if you could do that address rewriting in SMTP server before handing the mail over to Dovecot. So that Dovecot only sees user+detail at domain.