On Thu, July 5, 2012 3:33 am, Pascal Volk wrote: > I guess there is somewhere a missing closing curly bracket in one of > your configuration files.
Pascal, thanks for all the pointers, I think I got it, I inserted some of the lines in dovecot.conf itself (rather than conf.d), and, I think it's working: ---------- # grep dovecot /var/log/maillog | grep lmtp Jul 8 01:05:41 dovecot: lmtp(30465): Connect from local Jul 8 01:05:41 dovecot: lmtp(30465, v@tld): XSqYMEVQ+E8BdwAAyLbbsQ: msgid=<860624821.1534673480413.JavaMail.app@rbg42.atlis1>: saved mail to INBOX Jul 8 01:05:41 postfix/lmtp[30623]: 984DB381909: to=<v@tld>, relay=host.tld[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=0.33, delays=0.18/0.01/0/0.14, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 <v@tld> XSqYMEVQ+E8BdwAAyLbbsQ Saved) Jul 8 01:05:41 dovecot: lmtp(30465): Disconnect from local: Client quit (in reset) --------- thanks very much for your help so, is this how it's supposed to work: as long as there is a corresponding directory 'subdir', name+subdir gets delivered to 'subdir', otherwise, if no 'subdir', gets delivered to inbox ? -- Voytek