'Mailbox unknown' unpon LMTP delivery

Simon Matter simon.matter at ch.sauter-bc.com
Tue Jun 24 03:28:12 EDT 2003


Henning Holtschneider schrieb:
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> Hi,
> 
> I've just started using Cyrus IMAP (as part of the KDE Kolab server project)
> so please forgive me if this question is stupid and I should have looked
> elsewhere before.
> 
> I'm running Cyrus IMAP 2.1.13 on top of Postfix. Mail is being delivered from
> Postfix into Cyrus using an LMTP unix socket. My users have email addresses
> like firstname.lastname at domain.tld. The login names/mailbox names are unique
> user ids like "jdoe123". I created a virtual transport map in Postfix to map
> "firstname.lastname at domain.tld" to "username at domain.tld". Howerver, incoming
> messages can't be delivered to the mailboxes. Cyrus complains:
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> Jun 20 19:19:07 mail <info> postfix/lmtp[14044]: 3607DB3A73:
> to=<username at domain.tld>, orig_to=<firstname.lastname at domain.tld>,

Did you try sending mail to username instead of username at domain.tld just
to make sure delivery via LMTP works okay?

> relay=/kolab/var/kolab/lmtp[/kolab/var/kolab/lmtp], delay=13, status=bounced
> (host /kolab/var/kolab/lmtp[/kolab/var/kolab/lmtp] said: 550-Mailbox unknown.
> Either there is no mailbox associated with this 550-name or you do not have
> authorization to see it. 550 5.1.1 User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command))
> 
> I'm getting no suspicious messages in the LMTP log file. I tried to increase
> verbosity by setting CYRUS_VERBOSE=1 but this only results in more master
> messages and no additional LMTP log messages :-/ Is it possible to increase
> the LMTP logging level?
> 
> What's wrong with my setup? From reading the docs and the mailing list
> archive, I understand that Cyrus will take the recpipient address, strip off
> the domain name part and use the username to find a maildrop with the same
> name. This does not seem to be the case on my machine or I did not understand
> Cyrus correctly?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
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