[Dovecot] LDA postfix + deliver, problem lookup, accepting email for everyone

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Feb 6 15:55:03 EET 2008


On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 11:58 +0100, Sylvain Viart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm setting up dovecot pop3 deamon for a small set of mailbox.
> 
> I want to be able to set a small set of mailbox simply, so I've used 
> "passdb passwd-file" + virtual mailboxes with "userdb static".
> My problem is that it seems that postfix accept and create mailbox for 
> every address I post. It is configured to use local delivery through 
> dovecot's deliver.
> 
> How do I force deliver to retrun an error if the destination is not 
> defined in the passwd-file?
> The doc said that "userdb static" should do a lookup automatically. But 
> no luke for me.
> Is it really a deliver problem, or a postfix configuration problem?

You might be able to work around this by configuring Postfix, but this
is anyway fixed in a newer Dovecot version. You can get newer debs from
backports.org.

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