Can't send emails to user+shared.... mailbox

[Torsten E.]

Ken Murchison schrieb:
> Torsten E. wrote:
> 
>> Good morning list,
>>
>> some weeks ago I sent an question regarding this problem, and now I'll 
>> try it again.
>>
>> Subject is:
>> can't send emails eg. to user+share.lists.cyrus-imap at domain.tld, or
>> resp. user+shared.share.lists.cyrus-imap at domain.tld anymore, with
>> installed cyrus-imap 2.2.9 & 2.2.10.
>> Emails can be send to user+test at domain.tld.
>> (Above is an example - no email could be send to any subscribed
>> shared-folder (mailboxes with prefix "share").)
> 
> 
> You have two problems:

Ups ...

> 1. the altnamespace prefixes are only used for presentation to IMAP 
> clients, they are not used for mail delivery.  mail delivery bascially 
> uses the admin's view of the mailstore

Aaahhhh ... ok.
But as it worked in the past I always used it - I guess I basically 
misunderstood the description of it ...

> 2. you have postuser set to 'cyrus', so anything that you want to sent 
> to a shared mailbox must be sent to this "user"
> 
> so, try sending to cyrus+<mailbox>, e.g.:
> 
> cyrus+share.lists.cyrus-imap at domain.tld

That works pretty fine!
I just created an new account called mailsystem, set 'postuser = 
mailsystem', and changed my fetchmail scripts to:
'is mailsystem+share.lists...'

Tatatataaaaa ..... :-)

[...]

Thanks a lot!!!

And now I have two more questions:
a) is it possible to auto-subscribe to all lists with prefix 'share.', 
so I don't have to logon to that mailbox to do the subscription manually?
b) why did the way I explained work in the past? (I'm not kidding!)

c y
Torsten
Do you have an idea why it worked in the past? (I'm not kidding!)

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