> On November 12, 2016 at 8:08 PM Peter Fraser <petros.fra...@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/u...@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 usern...@domain.com
Aki
