[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA + Fedora destribution = no go?

[Marilyn Davis]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Jakob Hirsch wrote:

> Quoting Marilyn Davis:
> 
> > Exim allows a conversation to a socket from the configuration file, so
> > it would be even better to talk directly to a socket into dovecot for
> > delivering, rather than via a shell.  Then I could talk to dovecot via
> 
> Exim doesn't start a shell (unless explicitly specified) when using the
> pipe transport, but there's always a fork&exec, of course, but the
> impact is little on modern systems.

Oh.  I see.  Good.

> There was a little talk a while ago that it would be very cool to have a
> LMTP server inside dovecot (just like Cyrus), but I think it'll take a
> while until Timo will have time for such things. I thought about doing
> it myself, when time permits, as plugin, if this is possible.

Thank you for the help and info.

Marilyn

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