On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 17:45 +0100, Ulrich Zehl wrote: > The Dovecot 2.1 LMTP server currently always strips the address extension > from a recipient address (if recipient_delimiter is set), meaning user IDs > cannot contain the recipient delimiter character, e.g. "user+foo" is not > supported. > > This was surprising for me, as Postfix behaves differently in this regard: > It first looks up "user+foo", and only then "user". > > The attached patch works for me and brings Dovecot's behavior in line with > Postfix. Please let me know what you think about it.
What do you need this for? Do you really have usernames that have '+' characters? Sounds like a bad idea. In Postfix it makes more sense, because you might want user+ext to be delivered differently, but with Dovecot you can do this in Sieve.
