LMTP delivery honours .forward by default?

[MRob]

On 2016-12-05 16:37, MRob wrote:
> On 2016-12-05 05:53, MRob wrote:
>> On 2016-12-04 23:18, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016, MRob wrote:
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>>>> I was under the impression that Dovecot does not look at .forward by 
>>>> default, since of course, Sieve is where that kind of logic should 
>>>> go.  However, I'm seeing a .forward file being honoured by the LMTP 
>>>> delivery agent.  Is this to be expected?
>>> 
>>> What version of Dovecot are you using?
>> 
>> 2.2.22
>> 
>>> In my installation the MTA handles .forward.
>> 
>> Using with postfix connected to dovecot's LMTP for delivery. So what
>> you are saying is that postfix first looks at the .forward in the
>> user's home before handing off to dovecot LMTP? Why would it do such a
>> thing?
> 
> 
> After asking on the postfix list, I learned that postfix only inspects
> .forward if you use the postfix local delivery agent.
> 
> So Dovecot LMTP is doing this - when and why? It's not unwelcome, but
> I'd like to know how it is configured.

Never mind. Turns out this IS postfix after all.