[Dovecot] feature question: local delivery from SMTP

[Joseph Yee]

Mail client interacts with MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim, etc) and then
MTA 'calls' the delivery agent (LDA, some MTA, etc) to deliver the
mail to mailboxes.  Common mail clients do not interact with delivery
agent directly, even it's inbound. So yes, you need MTA for inbound
mail.

HTH
Joseph

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Phil Howard <ka9wgn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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