OK- and thanks again. I'll check this out in detail tomorrow, but regarding "Also take a look at the MTA-specific pages...", I basically cut and pasted them into my exim4 conf file. I'll go through this in detail and post again.
> -----Original Message----- > From: dovecot-bounces+aladdin=csunv....@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot- > bounces+aladdin=csunv....@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Bosch > Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 8:15 PM > To: anw-d...@infoisland.net > Cc: Aladdin; dovecot@dovecot.org > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Lost %d variable > > On 9/12/2010 6:14 PM, Aladdin wrote: > > Thanks, Stephan, for the quick reply. > > > > Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the problem. I don't have any > of the > > configuration options set to which that wiki page refers and I'm not > using > > SQL; furthermore, I set the "auth_debug" variable which that page > also > > recommended and it does not show any modification of the user/domain > > variables. My logs and errors are identical to those on my OP. > > > > What else could be the problem? > > I must say I haven toyed with this for a long time. > > Well, clearly LDA is using a bare username and not usern...@domain.tld. > Now I am interested in how dovecot-lda is called from your MTA (e.g. > from Exim/Postfix/Qmail). Particularly these arguments are interesting > (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA): > > -d <username>: Destination username. If given, the user information is > looked up from dovecot-auth. Typically used with virtual users, but not > necessarily with system users. -a <address>: Destination address (e.g. > user+...@domain). Default is the same as username. > > Also take a look at the MTA-specific pages referenced from the LDA wiki > page for examples. > > Regards, > > Stephan.