Postfix user at domain splitting

Ricardo Branco ricardo at wenn.com
Thu Jul 17 14:24:12 UTC 2014


Latest config

http://pastebin.com/XKNn6W24

Ricardo Branco wrote, On 16/07/2014 14:56:
> Shows that auth is not honouring the %n i have.
> Does the username_format need to be only in the userdb section or also the passdb part?
>
> http://pastie.org/9396504
>
> Ricardo Branco wrote, On 15/07/2014 18:23:
>> That was done for testing to see if it made any difference when I moved to LDA, in LDA mode it seems to not care if 
>> that is %n or %u, it always takes the first part of the email address which is weird.
>> Ive just tested again to confirm on %n and its not working so ive reverted again back to LDA which does. Seems to not 
>> matter how that variable is set it does not do anything.
>>
>> When using %n ive tried to see if I can login via IMAP with the whole username but again no, this is the error, note 
>> the difference between the 'user' field on each line.
>>
>> Jul 15 18:22:17 imap-login: Info: Login: user=<mark.whittaker>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.0.180, lip=10.100.0.198, 
>> mpid=9493, session=<VVE8pj7+9wAKAAC0>
>> Jul 15 18:22:20 imap-login: Info: Disconnected: Shutting down (auth failed, 4 attempts in 37 secs): 
>> user=<mark.whittaker at Wenn.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.0.3, lip=10.100.0.198, TLS, session=<Vjs9pD7+IgAKAAAD>
>>
>> Steffen Kaiser wrote, On 15/07/2014 13:18:
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>>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2014, Ricardo Branco wrote:
>>>
>>>> Attached files
>>>>
>>>> Nick Edwards wrote, On 15/07/2014 10:19:
>>>>> you need to show doveconf -n
>>>>> and what you have in the master.conf for dovecot
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/15/14, Ricardo Branco <ricardo at wenn.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I have been trying looking though all the wiki documents to setup LMTP.
>>>>>> It now seems to all be connected except that it keeps saying that the
>>>>>> user is not recognised when postfix sends to LMTP, it sends the full
>>>>>> recipent email address but seems that on the dovecot side it is unable
>>>>>> to work with this.
>>>>>> I have checked the userdb and made sure its using %n but alas it still
>>>>>> does not work.
>>>
>>> userdb {
>>>   args = username_format=%u /etc/passwd
>>>   driver = passwd-file
>>>   name = passwd-file
>>> }
>>>
>>> In opposite to your sentence I see a %u there.
>>>
>>>>>> Currently ive had to revert to using LDA as it works fine with that but
>>>>>> i still dont know how as the postfix config variable $RECIPIENT is the
>>>>>> full email address and does not seem to matter to LDA.
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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