Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

[Noel Butler]

On 26/06/2016 02:39, Michael Fox wrote:
>> The most crucial difference is that LDA is intended for delivering 
>> email
>> to a *real* user.
>> 
>> Aki
> 
> 
> Thanks Aki.
> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but why does it matter?  In other words, what is
> it that makes LDA better for a *real* user and LMTP better for a
> virtual user?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael

We've used LDA for virtual users for a very very long time, though we 
use multiple front ends, each with postfix/dovecot and mysql (replicated 
DB) they all talk to one big storage backend via NFS (as do the 
pop3/imap/webmails servers), we looked at lmtp once but saw no 
advantages given the setup.


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