[Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP index files
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?
On 2012-10-03 10:34 AM, list@airstreamcomm.net <list@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...
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On 10/3/2012 10:03 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-10-03 10:34 AM, list@airstreamcomm.net <list@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...
"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
On 10/3/2012 9:34 AM, list@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?
Brand new account created with LMTP. So I'd say yes.
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