usage of recipient delimiters

Fabian Santiago fsantiago at garbage-juice.com
Sun Nov 15 12:20:06 UTC 2015


Thank you Christian. That led me right and it's working as I wish now. 

Sincerely,

Fabian Santiago

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> On Nov 15, 2015, at 4:25 AM, Christian Kivalo <ml+dovecot at valo.at> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am 15. November 2015 01:46:29 MEZ, schrieb fsantiago at garbage-juice.com:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have a forum system which can potentially have users send email to it
>> 
>> for posting purposes that arrives addressed to a particular user
>> account 
>> with a recipient delimiter:
>> 
>> user+1a2b3c4d5e6f at domain.com
>> 
>> The forum server is supposed to check the "user" account mailbox's
>> inbox 
>> for the messages and post them to the site automatically. This doesn't 
>> work right now because when the messages arrive, they get placed into a
>> 
>> newly and automatically created folder named after the alpha numeric 
>> string after the + in the address (eg... 1a2b3c4d5e6f).
>> 
>> I feel dovecot is likely doing this. any ideas why and how i can shut 
>> this off and just allow them to arrive and stay in the inbox?
>> 
>> My version is:
>> 
>> 2.2.10
>> 
>> My config is:
>> 
>> # 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>> # OS: Linux 4.1.5-x86_64-linode61 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503
> 
> ...
> 
>> userdb {
>>  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf
>>  driver = sql
>> }
>> protocol lda {
>>  auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>>  lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes
> 
> With this setting in 15-lda.conf nonexistant folders are automatically created
> 
>>  lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes
>>  log_path = /var/log/dovecot-sieve.log
>>  mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl sieve
>>  postmaster_address = root
>> }
>> protocol lmtp {
>>  info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lmtp.log
>>  lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes
> 
> Tries to save to the detail mailbox when a recipient address contains the detail. look at in 20-lmtp.conf
> 
>>  mail_plugins = quota sieve
>>  postmaster_address = postmaster
>>  recipient_delimiter = +
>> }
>> protocol imap {
>>  imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep
>>  mail_max_userip_connections = 20
>>  mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl imap_quota imap_acl
>> }
>> protocol pop3 {
>>  mail_max_userip_connections = 20
>>  mail_plugins = quota mailbox_alias acl
>>  pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
>>  pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> - Fabian S.
> 
> Regards
> Christian
> 



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