Hi to all, my question is what is benefit implementing LMTP service replacing LDA i have dovecot 2.1.8 with vpoipmail+qmail and about 500 users now i'm using LDA and i'm interested on LMTP service. Thanks in advance -- */Davide Marchi /Teorema Ferrara Srl /(Tel: /**/+39 0532 783161)/**/ (Fax: +/**/39 0532 783368/**/)/**//**/ /**//**/Davide.Marchi at mail.cgilfe.it <mailto:davide.marchi at mail.cgilfe.it?subject=Info> /CONFIDENZIALITA? *** Questo messaggio, inclusi gli eventuali allegati, ? indirizzato solo ai destinatari e pu? contenere informazioni riservate e confidenziali. Se avete ricevuto il messaggio senza esserne un destinatario, siete pregati di non utilizzare, copiare o distribuire questo messaggio o i suoi allegati. Se avete ricevuto il messaggio per errore, siete pregati di cancellarlo dal vostro sistema, assieme a tutti gli allegati, e di informare immediatamente il mittente,sia ai sensi dell'art. 616 c.p., sia ai sensi del DL n. 196/03. *CONFIDENTIALITY*** This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee(s) and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient(s) or an authorized representative of the intended recipient(s), please do not use, copy, distribute this email or its attachments or take action based on them. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the message and any attachments from your system. *Teorema FerraraSrl - Via Spronello, 7 - 44121 Ferrara Italia - P. IVA 01244490387** P**S**tampa questo messaggio solo se veramente necessario, pensa alla natura! - Please consider whether it is necessary to print this e-mail*
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Davide <davide.marchi at mail.cgilfe.it> wrote:> Hi to all, > my question is what is benefit implementing LMTP service replacing LDA i > have dovecot 2.1.8 with vpoipmail+qmail and about 500 users now i'm using > LDA and i'm interested on LMTP service. > Thanks in advanceFor us it has the benefit that we don't need to run any SMTP servers on the backend dovecot servers, and we can have our frontend postfix servers deliver incoming messages trough the dovecot director so that the users are sticky to their servers. For a single server running everything, I don't know if there's any point. -jf
Davide wrote:> my question is what is benefit implementing LMTP service replacing > LDA i have dovecot 2.1.8 with vpoipmail+qmail and about 500 users > now i'm using LDA and i'm interested on LMTP service.with LMTP... * you dont need to care about mail filesystem permissions * you can use dovecot lmtp proxy and/or director * you don't need to spawn a new process for each message Regards Daniel -- https://plus.google.com/103021802792276734820
Daniel Parthey writes:> Davide wrote: >> my question is what is benefit implementing LMTP service replacing >> LDA i have dovecot 2.1.8 with vpoipmail+qmail and about 500 users >> now i'm using LDA and i'm interested on LMTP service. > > with LMTP... > * you dont need to care about mail filesystem permissions > * you can use dovecot lmtp proxy and/or director > * you don't need to spawn a new process for each messageOne of the (potential) benefit is that a LMTP, because it can handle multiple recipients, has the ability to optimize I/O (or storage?) by using hardlinking to a single copy of a message (deduping). I don't know if Dovecot takes advantage of this in any way though. Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>