dovecot - Aug 2009 - getmail and Dovecot LDA deliver

Hello,

my first post in this list. Hope it's the right place.:-)

I'm having a problem running getmail together with Dovecot LDA for virtual
users. To achive this I let getmail run under the user that owns the virtual
email accounts-root. The problem is that getmail is running under the user
vmail and therefore the emails received will be put into vmail's mailbox.
But the emails getmail collected are actually for a virtual Dovecot user
which has its maildir in a subdirectory of vmails home.
The settings for the virtual users seem to be okay: I can login on Dovecot
with virtual user account and I can send emails to Postfix for the virtual
user. Postfix correctly uses devlier with the name of the virtual user and
so the emails are going to the correct directory.
For me it seems that getmail always uses the username under which getmail is
currently running. As this must be a local user, getmails always announces
this local user to deliver and deliver therefore puts the emails into the
wrong account.
My question is: How do I let deliver know that it should use a virtual user?
I tried with the -d agrument in my getmail rc File, but deliver never
accepts the parameter -d (always says unknown parameter -d). I tried as well
to let getmail or deliver to be run as root, but then the emails will be
delivered to roots home, which is not the goal too...
Does anyone know a way how I can set getmail to handle emails for a virtual
account properly?

Any hint is appreciated as it already costed me hours of try-and-error

Regards

tobi 
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On Aug 10, 2009, at 4:50 AM, spacejam wrote:
> My question is: How do I let deliver know that it should use a  
> virtual user?
> I tried with the -d agrument in my getmail rc File, but deliver never
> accepts the parameter -d (always says unknown parameter -d).
Either you're using some really ancient deliver version or the error  
message comes from getmail or something else besides deliver. So, what  
Dovecot version do you use? And also copy&paste the exact error  
message (and maybe other messages too) that you get. And the getmailrc  
could help too.