[Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP index files

[Jack Bates]

On 10/3/2012 10:03 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2012-10-03 10:34 AM, list at airstreamcomm.net 
> <list at airstreamcomm.net> wrote:
>> In the docs it states that LDA " ...takes mail from anMTAand delivers 
>> it to a user's mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index files up to 
>> date."  I am wondering if LMTP also interacts with the Dovecot index 
>> files and keeps them up to date? 
>
> Yes... although it doesn't seem to state that explicitly in the wiki...
>
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP
>
"The main difference is that the LDA is a short-running process, started 
as a binary from command line, while LMTP is a long-running process 
started by Dovecot's master process."

I think they are trying to reduce duplication of information.


Jack