Postfix Ignoring lmtp, delivering straight to maildir

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Thu Mar 16 10:39:00 EET 2017


And the answer is, auth_username_format=%n in dovecot.conf.

On 03/16/2017 01:04 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
> Looks like this is a dovecot problem after all. :)
>
> I can get Postfix to deliver to lmtp, but it's telling it to deliver to
> a fully qualified 'user at domain.tld' address. Postfix says that it can't
> find that user, and that turns out to be the case.
>
> dovecot: auth: Debug: master in:
> USER#0112#011user at domain.tld#011service=lmtp
>
> So I read up on that error, and it looked like I needed to do this in
> auth-system.conf.ext
>
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
>   override_fields = username_format=%n
> }
>
> But that didn't work, same error.
>
> So how do I convince dovecot that user at domain.tld is really local Unix
> account named "user" ??
>
> Doug


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