[Dovecot] deliver vs lda

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> heh... well, they would soon enough...
>
> Seriously though... why call it a 'local delivery agent', when its
> really more than that? Local suggests local/system users, and dovecot
> delivery agent works fine for both local and virtual users. Postfix
> calls its local delivery agent 'local', and its virtual delivery agent
> 'virtual'
>   

It's local because it stores e-mails somewhere in the local filesystem
hierarchy, instead of sending it to a remote machine via SMTP (or any
other protocol).

I don't know postfix a lot, but I wonder why it needs two LDAs, one for
real users and one for virtual ones, when the only conceptual difference
should be where to store e-mails and where to lookup information on the
existence of the user and his mail spool directory.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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