[Dovecot] sieve redirect envelope address problem

[Костырев Александр Алексеевич]

Because it should be optional for users (to use or not to use filters).


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Костырев Александр
администратор Linux-систем


-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Reindl Harald
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:30 PM
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] sieve redirect envelope address problem



Am 08.05.2013 03:24, schrieb Костырев Александр Алексеевич:
> Good day!
> 
> I have a problem with mail redirection through sieve rules.
> I've configured sieve rule that redirects any mail coming to user to gmail mailbox (or whatever external mail system there is).
> But when sieve redirects any mail it puts vmail@%dovecot_hostname% into envelope address, gives it to my exim for delivery and gmail rejects my mail because user vmail@%dovecot_hostname% do not exist.
> Please, advice for what can be done about this behavior

if you say "any mail coming to user" why do you implent the forwarding in dovecot/sieve instead directly on the MTA?

i am using postfix, so no idea how to implement it in exim but i have on asverer 9000 forwarders which never touch the LDA at all and directly forwarded from the MTA