Dovecot lmtp

[Aki Tuomi]

> On November 12, 2016 at 8:08 PM Peter Fraser <petros.fraser at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi All
> I am migrating from dovecot-1.x where I had LDA running
> to dovecot2-2.2.26.0_1 where I am trying to set up LMTP. I have enabled a
> TCP/IP socket .Setting below.
> service lmtp {
>     inet_listener lmtp {
>     address = 127.0.0.1
>     port = 24
>     }
> }
> 
> and put this additional entry in postfix
>  virtual_transport = lmtp:127.0.0.1:24
> 
> in 10-mail.conf my mail location is below
> mail_location=maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/:INDEX=~/Maildir/tmp/index
> 
> My problem is that when I enable lmtp, dovecot creates a new maildir at
> /home/vmail/user at domain.com and delivers the email there in a Maildir
> instead of using the default one at /home/vmail/username
> 
> I researched it but I just can't seem to figure out why this is. I would
> really appreciate any help on this. Thanks in advance.

You probably have something like

mail_home=/home/vmail/%u

change that to 

mail_home=/home/vmail/%Ln # (lowercase username)

you can verify this with

doveadm user username at domain.com

Aki