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Mail delivered to /home/user/Maildir instead of /var/mail/vdomain/vuser/Maildir

I've instructed Postfix to use dovecot transport with the following line in /etc/postfix/main.cf

Code:

virtual_transport = dovecot

but it is still delivered to /home/user/Maildir.

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong please?

Here is my dovecot -n

Code:

# OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) ext4

auth_mechanisms = cram-md5

disable_plaintext_auth = no

last_valid_gid = 1000

mail_gid = 502

mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n/Maildir

mail_uid = 501

passdb {

  args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users

  driver = passwd-file

}

ssl = no

userdb {

  args = username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/users

  driver = passwd-file

}

verbose_proctitle = yes

Here is the contents of /etc/dovecot/users

Code:

peter:{SHA512}AUodPFNKd7SO++EIZlGDv2vItu5c6vGHfnFpJAVcTTP/E2J79YU2xOmXMgMaXmA5DdPApnImoVX1f2oip+lpJQ==

Many thanks,

Peter

You don't need to use virtual_transport to specify the interface with Dovecot. By default, dovecot will look for mail in /home/{user}/Maildir. If you want to specify that Postfix should deliver mail to some other folder, you can use Postfix's virtual_mailbox facilities(see this page). Then you will also need to tell Dovecot to look for mail in some place other than the default location; for that configuration, see this page