** Kumar Shantanu <shantanu@techblue.co.uk> [2013-12-02 15:58]:

I have built up my email server with exim + dovecot + clamv/spamassasin. I am using exim as LDA(local delivery agent). I was reading about using dovecot as LDA but I couldn't find why should I use it?

Now, I am looking expert advice on "Why should I use dovecot LDA" ? Is there any benefit in terms of functionality or performance ?

Any advice/suggestion/feedbacks welcome. ** end quote [Kumar Shantanu]

The main reason I switched was so that I could move from procmail to seive, which is much nicer to configure. As an aside it also fixed an annoyance I had where, with my virtual domain/user setup, a directory was created for each email address that had mail sent to it (which resulted in a collection of directories for random junk spam addresses). At the time I hadn't investigated a fix, and the upgrade to Dovecot 2, with Dovecot as the LDA managing the virtual users fixed this as a side issue :)

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