LMTP delivery honours .forward by default?

[MRob]

On 2016-12-04 23:18, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016, MRob wrote:
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>> I was under the impression that Dovecot does not look at .forward by 
>> default, since of course, Sieve is where that kind of logic should go. 
>>  However, I'm seeing a .forward file being honoured by the LMTP 
>> delivery agent.  Is this to be expected?
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> What version of Dovecot are you using?

2.2.22

> In my installation the MTA handles .forward.

Using with postfix connected to dovecot's LMTP for delivery. So what you 
are saying is that postfix first looks at the .forward in the user's 
home before handing off to dovecot LMTP? Why would it do such a thing?