[Dovecot] Dovecot MTA

[WJCarpenter]

On 11/08/2013 10:46 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2013-11-08 1:35 PM, WJCarpenter <bill-dovecot at carpenter.org> wrote:
>> I would probably be pretty skeptical and uninterested in a Dovecot 
>> MTA. No offense. I think you should look at other existing MTAs 
>> besides postfix before concluding there is a hole that needs filling. 
>
> The one exception to this though, is if it was simply implemented as a 
> proxy, but used for internal/local only emails - so, no need to 
> involve postfix or Exim for mail submitted to the dovecot_mta if the 
> recipient is destined for the dovecot_LDA...
>
> The more I think about it the more I even like this idea...
>

Well, that's sort of true for operational efficiency kinds of things, 
but do you really one to configure one program for internal mail and 
another for externally sent/received mail? I don't, but tastes vary. :-)