PHP mail not sending correctly, instead Dovecot delivers to _www mailbox

I've already searched  discussions and the web to no avail.
Since moving my websites over to Mac OS X Server Snow Lepard 10.6.1 my PHP mail forms don't work correctly. They should send mail (from Wordpress 2.8.4 and Drupal 5.x) to a specified mail address. One of the recipient's domains is mail hosted on the same server, the other one isn't. Mail itself works perfectly.
Instead of PHP sending mail to the correct mail address the mail is delivered via dovecot to a local mailbox for the _www user which is of course undesired.
I can't find anything helpful in the logs of the mailservices and apache. (Even with debug)
I'm using the standard PHP 5.3 included with Mac OS X Server and use SMTP via localhost to send mail in php.ini.
Any hints on where to further investigate the problem? It's kind of annoying having to use a terminal as root to dig into the forms (not)mailed to me by directly looking at the dovecot store.
Best regards
Pepi

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