[Dovecot] Delivered-To header without +extension ?

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Fri Jan 21 15:29:15 EET 2011


On 2011-01-21 4:30 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
> Charles Marcus wrote:
>> On 2011-01-20 4:06 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
>>> I've been reading
>>> a bit, and I think the issue is that postfix adds X-Original-To when
>>> delivering to a mailbox - which delivery via smtp/lmtp isn't.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if postfix should be adding it - postfix applies
>>> virtual_aliases_maps, then delivers to dovecot via lmtp (set up via
>>> virtual_transport) - without X-Original-To, the information
>>> of "original recipient" is lost at this point.
>>
>> Yikes... I've been planning on switching to LMTP for delivery, but
>> this would be a show-stopper...
>>
>> Please keep us updated on what you find out...

> It looks like the issue was discussed here:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=postfix-users&m=118852762117587
> 
> Wietse concludes that the virtual aliasing would be better done on the
> final station, i.e. dovecot.  Personally I don't need the X-Original-To
> header, but it does seem like it ought to be written by <whatever> is
> chosen as virtual_transport, rather than only virtual or pipe.

Thanks...

Thoughts Timo?

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Best regards,

Charles


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