LDA versus LMTP
Steve Matzura
number6 at noisynotes.com
Fri Jun 12 11:04:09 UTC 2015
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 22:27:43 -0500, you wrote:
>
>On Jun 11, 2015, at 8:51 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:14:31 -0400, Ajai Khattri <symbiat at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Im using Dovecot for LMTP for all my mail users, since this way they are
>>> completely virtual (i.e. dont need to have a local account at all), all
>>> mail gets delivered to Maildirs owned by dovecot. Also LMTP makes it easier
>>> to insert scripts and do any custom processing which presumably is where
>>> Sieve comes in. Its also pretty easy to setup.
>>
>> Sounds like that's what I should be doing. OK, so how is Dovecot told
>> to use LMTP instead of LDA? I must not be understanding something
>> about what's in either 15-lda.conf or 20-lmtp.conf.
>
>You have to configure your mta to deliver to lmtp instead of lda.
So this gets done in Postfix then?
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