[Dovecot] Dovecot MTA

[Charles Marcus]

On 2013-11-08 2:16 PM, WJCarpenter <bill-dovecot at carpenter.org> wrote:
> On 11/08/2013 10:46 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
>> On 2013-11-08 1:35 PM, WJCarpenter <bill-dovecot at carpenter.org> wrote:
>>> I would probably be pretty skeptical and uninterested in a Dovecot 
>>> MTA. No offense. I think you should look at other existing MTAs 
>>> besides postfix before concluding there is a hole that needs filling. 
>>
>> The one exception to this though, is if it was simply implemented as 
>> a proxy, but used for internal/local only emails - so, no need to 
>> involve postfix or Exim for mail submitted to the dovecot_mta if the 
>> recipient is destined for the dovecot_LDA...
>>
>> The more I think about it the more I even like this idea...
>>
>
> Well, that's sort of true for operational efficiency kinds of things, 
> but do you really one to configure one program for internal mail and 
> another for externally sent/received mail? I don't, but tastes vary. :-)

As long as the configuration was simple, I don't see a problem...

What seems inefficient to me, especially since dovecot now has a 
submission server, is to submit to dovecot, then pass to postfix, then 
back to dovecot (for local mail)...

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Best regards,

*/Charles/*