Gary Chambers wrote: > All... > > The problem is that mail is delivered to > $virtual_mailbox_base/domain1.com/home/test/ > (/vhome/domain1.com/home/test/) > as opposed to $virtual_mailbox_base/domain1.com/home/test/$home_mailbox/ > (/vhome/domain1.com/home/test/Maildir/). Local delivery is unaffected > and > works as expected. >
>From http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#home_mailbox: Optional pathname of a mailbox file relative to a local(8) user's home directory. You are not using the local(8) delivery agent so it will never be applied to those in virtual_mailbox_maps. > I've unsuccessfully tried using Dovecot's LDA, and I've tried > variations of > $home_mailbox (e.g. ~/Maildir/, $HOME/Maildir/, ./Maildir/), all with no > success. See below, but know that virtual_mailbox_maps is a yes/no answer when the delivery agent is *not* virutal(8). Only virtual(8) delivery agent will make use of that map directly. Postfix will not tell Dovecot where to put mail. > > I'm new to Postfix (a recent Sendmail convert), so I am assuming that I'm > missing some fundamental piece of information to get this to work as I > expect. I have implmented a kludgey (hopefully interim) solution of > using > symlinks to Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}. Thank you very much in advance for > any > guidance you can provide. > > A sample of the contents of vmailbox is as follows: > t...@domain1.com domain1.com/home/test/ > kabc...@domain2.net domain2.net/home/kabcdef/ > dab...@domain2.net domain2.net/home/dabcde/ > Fix your vmailbox map. Brian > The output of postconf -n is as follows: > > alias_database = pgsql:/etc/postfix/aliases-pg.cf > alias_maps = pgsql:/etc/postfix/aliases-pg.cf > > home_mailbox = Maildir/ > > virtual_alias_maps = pgsql:/etc/postfix/virtual-pg.cf > virtual_gid_maps = static:60008 > virtual_mailbox_base = /vhome > virtual_mailbox_domains = > pgsql:/etc/postfix/virtual-mailbox-domains-pg.cf > virtual_mailbox_maps = dbm:/etc/postfix/vmailbox > virtual_uid_maps = static:60008 > > Gary Chambers > > // ------------------------------------- > // Gary Chambers and Associates > // Nothing fancy and nothing Microsoft > // http://garychambers.com/ > // -------------------------------------
