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[apologies for postfix/dovecot cross-post] How, exactly, do postfix and dovecot communicate when postfix attempts to determine whether to deliver a message to the dovecot LDA, or to bounce it? In other words, how does postfix decide to bounce foo, and deliver bar, in these log messages: postfix/pipe[11857]: 933BCA071A: to=<foo at example.com>, relay=dovecot, ... status=bounced (user

I'm trying to understand how to deliver mail to an address locally which is popped from my isps email account. I access and keep these emails backed up on dovecot and use postfix smtp to deliver mail. The problem is that while fetchmail uses dovecot lda directly, postfix can't include my isps domain in its $mydestination because I won't be able to send mail to other users in that