[Dovecot] (Dis)advantage of using lmtp?

Christian Schmidt Christian.Schmidt at chemie.uni-hamburg.de
Sun Nov 28 01:46:57 EET 2010


Hello Timo,

Timo Sirainen, 22.11.2010 (d.m.y):

> On 22.11.2010, at 21.10, Christian Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > are there any (dis)advantages in "connecting" dovecot and an MTA (in our
> > case: exim) using LMTP over using other methods (e.g. the exim
> > transports definitions that can be found in the wiki)?
> 
> LMTP should have better performance, since less processes are started. LMTP 
> doesn't have equivalent of some dovecot-lda parameters, but you probably won't need them.

Ah, I see. Thanks!

Gruss/Regards,
Christian Schmidt

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