I’ve decided to migrate my emails to another host. It includes a postfix sandwich config with a spam filter in the middle. By the way, I use dovecot as the virtual transport to let my emails sorted to different folder, including spam to the Junk folder.

So far so good (even though there was hell of a troubleshooting why the spam filter became terribly slow. It’s fixed by now, anyway). Then I tested with some emails, and found that I got a mail loops back for my@email. Wtf?

The culprit was the already existing Delivered-To: header in the emails. So I’ve fixed master.cf like

dovecot unix – n n – – pipe
flags=Rhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} -e

and it started to work propely.

However, I just couldn’t let it go that it was working properly with DRhu flags.

Then I’ve fixed the email, and removed any additional header that was added by either the local postfix or the content filter, and reverted the flags to DRhu, and it worked!

dovecot unix – n n – – pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} -e

The moral of the story: test with new emails. Or at least remove any locally added headers 🙂