Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

[aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi]

The most crucial difference is that LDA is intended for delivering email to a *real* user.

Aki

> On June 24, 2016 at 7:59 PM Jan Büren <jan at kivitendo-premium.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> > I'd appreciate comments from experienced users of postfix with dovecot.
> > Are
> > you using Dovecot LDA or LMTP and why?
> I have LMTP with dovecot running on Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04.
> 
> LDA is the worser solution, this is best explained in chapter LTMP in
> Peers dovecot book, which is unluckily in german and more or less out of
> print.
> 
> But you can easily grasp the configuration details and reverse engineer
> the technical german phrases ...
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks much,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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