[Dovecot] Using MailDir but local messages still save in mbox format

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Fri Sep 27 10:32:14 EEST 2013


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On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Mike Edwards wrote:

> The messages that come from cron and other system stuff that address messages 
> to root at my.host.name  or to ownerOfCronJob at my.host.name    Nobody will ever

ah, local messages. You still want to make sure in the MTA, these 
addresses are rejected from outside, to prevent spammers using them.

> I did just find a way to put in a forward to forward everything to 
> root at my.host.name to a virtual box and now the messages have stopped for that

Check out if your MTA handles catch-all aliases or forwards for the whole 
domain.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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