On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:41 PM, kashani <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/7/2011 4:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:25 PM, kashani<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 7/7/2011 2:50 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >>>> >>>> The idea: >>>> >>>> Assuming I can't do anything about how Postfix handles the >>>> Delivered-To header, I'd like to insert a new header entry >>>> (X-Originally-To: or something like that) into incoming mail before it >>>> hits the catchall forward, so I can know to whom the email was >>>> originally addressed... but i don't really know where to begin. >>>> >>>> The question: >>>> >>>> Are there any postfix gurus out there who can point me in the right >>>> direction? Thanks in advance for any tips or advice (or if you want to >>>> tell me that I'm doing it all wrong). >>> >>> It should already be there at least in 2.7.4 which is stable unless >>> you've >>> really tweaked your main.cf. I'd run a postconf | grep enable_orig and >>> see >>> if it's not set to yes. >>> >>> kashani >>> >>> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html >>> >>> enable_original_recipient (default: yes) >>> >>> Enable support for the X-Original-To message header. This header is >>> needed for multi-recipient mailboxes. >> >> Hi kashani, >> >> I actually read about that option when I was trying to make this >> happen (forgot about it when composing my original message). Googling >> that option I found that most people were interested in combining >> multi-recipient messages to one on disk (to save space). Indeed the >> option is already set to "yes" on my setup, but I still don't get that >> header. I supposed that it has nothing to do with the address I'm >> interested in (from the envelope) and instead is looking at the To: >> name from headers (which is unchanged). Or because my message does not >> have multiple recipients. But maybe I'm completely misunderstanding >> what it's all about. > > I think I've got it figured out and this is your culprit. > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Mail_server_using_Postfix_and_Dovecot#Dovecot_Integration_-_LDA > > This is because Postfix adds the x-original-to when it delivers, but not > when it passes the mail via lmtp to Dovecot. See this Dovecot thread for > some details. > > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-January/056787.html > > The primary benefits of Dovecot LDA seem to be cache files and Sieve. > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Indexing > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve > > If you aren't using Sieve, I would try is using virtual_transport = virtual > instead of virtual_transport = dovecot > > You might need to change some settings in your Dovecot config to match where > Postfix will deliver the emails, specifically mail_location = > maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n/Maildir/:INDEX=/var/mail/%d/%n/indexes > > This are the settings I use for Postfix w/ Courier. Should work with > Dovecot, but again you might need to change things a bit. > > # virtual stuff > virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf > virtual_gid_maps = static:207 > virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/ > virtual_mailbox_domains = > proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf > virtual_mailbox_limit = 512400000 > virtual_mailbox_maps = > proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_mailbox_maps.cf > virtual_minimum_uid = 207 > virtual_transport = virtual > virtual_uid_maps = static:207
Really great info, thanks a lot for taking your time to look into it. I will experiment with it and see what I can do. Thankfully I'm just using a new domain for testing for now, so I have the freedom to break things as much as needed until I get it right. :) Thanks again, Paul
