LMTP delivery honours .forward by default?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 5 Dec 2016, MRob wrote:
> 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?

The why: ".forward" is a way to let an user specify a forward address, 
IMHO, it origins from the times, when sendmail delivered the messages to 
mailboxes in the user's home and when users could manage the mail flow 
from their home directory as well.
Maybe just to redirect local deliveries to somewhere else.

> Never mind. Turns out this IS postfix after all.

fine you found it. :)

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Steffen Kaiser
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