Deleted user still getting mail?!

Hi There
I once had a user on the server with the shortname "xyz". Since i deleted this user, my mailserver seems to be confused and is still looking for this user's account. My log is full of messages like these, two of them per minute (!!):
Aug 14 20:47:47 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:48:24 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:49:01 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:49:38 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:50:15 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:50:52 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:51:29 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:52:06 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:52:43 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:53:20 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:53:57 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:54:34 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:55:11 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:55:48 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:56:25 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:57:02 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:57:39 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:58:16 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:58:53 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 20:59:30 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 21:00:07 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
I really don't know how to get rid of these messages?! The mailbox has been deleted of course...
Also, dovegot seems to be looking for the user:
Aug 14 21:01:21 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od(xyz,192.168.178.3): auth mech=APOP
Aug 14 21:01:21 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od(xyz,192.168.178.3): username=xyz, challenge=<[email protected]>, response=71c2f9dd077c65f639966f277a9450bd
Aug 14 21:01:21 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od(xyz,192.168.178.3): directory lookup for: user=xyz
Aug 14 21:01:21 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): od[getpwnam_ext](xyz,192.168.178.3): No record for user
Aug 14 21:01:23 mini dovecot[295]: auth(default): client out: FAIL 50 user=xyz
Thanks for any suggestions!
All the best
Roman
Message was edited by: Gxxfy

You may be able to get a bit more information by running the command "sudo fs_usage -f network | grep connect" on the server for a few minutes -- it'll print a line every time a program makes a network connection (the last thing on the line will be the program name), so look for something that makes a couple of connections a minute, just before the auth failures in the dovecot log. Mind you, there's a fair chance it'll be something like perl or python, which tells you it's a perl/python/etc script making the connection, but not which script...

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