[Dovecot] feature question: local delivery from SMTP

[Phil Howard]

I saw something in the documentation called LDA that looked like it was
accepting some kind of connection and delivering mail into mailboxes.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Veiko Kukk <veiko.kukk at ekp.ee> wrote:

> Phil Howard wrote:
>
>> Does Dovecot really need a separate MTA for inbound mail?
>>
>
> Why do you thing it might need?
>
>
>  Or can it receive
>> SMTP directly if there is no forwarding to do?  What about spam/virus
>> filtering in that case?
>>
>
> Dovecot has nothing to do with smtp. You need MTA like postfix or exim to
> deliver mail to mbox/maildir. Then dovecot can show those mailboxes to
> client.
>
> --
> Veiko
>
>


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