Is there a reason I should prefer LMTP over LDA for local delivery? Performance? Security? The Wiki doesn't differentiates LMTP vs LDA with respect to sendmail configuration, so am I correct that I just need to replace mail.local with dovecot-lda, which will choose LDA/LMTP based on dovecot.conf? Also, can I consolidate authentication by configuring dovecot to use what sendmail uses (Cyrus SASL) or vice versa? The Wiki hints this is in the works. Lastly, toggling verbose_proctitle seems to have no effect on the output of ps. Is verbose_proctitle broken for Solaris? Thanks, Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>
Quoting Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>:> Is there a reason I should prefer LMTP over LDA for local delivery? > Performance? Security? The Wiki doesn't differentiates LMTP vs LDA > with respect to sendmail configuration, so am I correct that I just need > to replace mail.local with dovecot-lda, which will choose LDA/LMTP based > on dovecot.conf?I don't know about your other two questions, but :) I used to use LDA, but little issues crop up with it, mainly doing with upgrades and interfacing to it from the mda. Generally these are one time setup issues (except when upgrades undo changes). For the upgrade issue I finally switched to LMTP, and I love it, the logs it produces are much nicer, I don't have to worry about upgrade or anything else having compatability issues, cause it's just a connection, no direct program interfacing going on. The paramaters that get passed, while not that hard, can be interesting to setup, it seems lmtp passes much more info than you could pass to the deliver-lda program on the command line.
On 2011-04-07 11:38 PM, Patrick Domack wrote:> > The paramaters that get passed, while not that hard, can be interesting > to setup, it seems lmtp passes much more info than you could pass to the > deliver-lda program on the command line.The only downside seems to be the loss of the x-original-to header, which I am still deciding on whether or not is a deal breaker for us to switch to LMTP... I look at that header a lot (I use lots of aliases and plus addressing)... -- Best regards, Charles