On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 01:20:55AM +0100, Christian Benke wrote: > I've been trying to configure Dovecot to work as LDA for file-based > virtual users with Postfix. > > Some part in the configuration seems to miss though, as mails are > received by Postfix, but instead of giving it to Dovecot for > delivery, it delivers the mails itself.
Perhaps surprisingly, this is a Postfix issue, not a Dovecot one. > Postfix drops the mail in /var/mail/<user>/mbox, if Dovecot would be > called, it should deliver it to /var/vmail/<domain>/<user>/Maildir. > > I've made sure to add the dovecot-service to postfix/master.cf > according to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix and tried all kinds > of settings and did quadruple checks for errors. > > I'm using Debian 6.0 with Dovecot 2.1.7(From backports) and Postfix 2.7.1 > > I've been trying to figure out what's missing for a few hours now and > have to give up for today. I hope someone can help me with a hint > what's missing or wrong :-/ > > Here's an excerpt from my mail.log, my postconf -n and dovecot -n: > [snip] > Mar 17 00:02:46 poab postfix/local[15341]: 66AD04E23EE: to=<benkkk AT > example.com>, relay=local, delay=0.35, delays=0.3/0.01/0/0.04, > dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox) This is postfix/local, which means it is not being routed to your virtual_transport. It means example.com is in mydestination. > Mar 17 00:02:46 poab postfix/qmgr[14844]: 66AD04E23EE: removed > > # postconf -n > alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases > alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases > append_dot_mydomain = no > biff = no > broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes > config_directory = /etc/postfix > debug_peer_level = 3 > inet_interfaces = all > inet_protocols = all > mailbox_size_limit = 5120000000 > myhostname = example.com ... You did not even set mydestination, thus you get the default. You really should review the Postfix Basic Configuration README: http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html Perhaps you'd be better off without the virtual mailboxes anyway? [snip] > Central Asia by bike, starting May 2013 - http://poab.org Wow, a great adventure, good luck! -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
