Hello All, I have built up my email server with exim + dovecot + clamv/spamassasin. I am using exim as LDA(local delivery agent). I was reading about using dovecot as LDA but I couldn't find why should I use it? Now, I am looking expert advice on "Why should I use dovecot LDA" ? Is there any benefit in terms of functionality or performance ? Any advice/suggestion/feedbacks welcome. Thanks Shantanu
On 2013-12-02 10:56 AM, Kumar Shantanu <shantanu at techblue.co.uk> wrote:> Now, I am looking expert advice on "Why should I use dovecot LDA" ? Is > there any benefit in terms of functionality or performance ? > > Any advice/suggestion/feedbacks welcome.Did you bother to read the wiki? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/ It spells out the benefits pretty well... -- Best regards, */Charles/*
Am 02.12.2013 16:56, schrieb Kumar Shantanu:> Hello All, > > I have built up my email server with exim + dovecot + clamv/spamassasin. > I am using exim as LDA(local delivery agent). I was reading about using > dovecot as LDA but I couldn't find why should I use it? > > Now, I am looking expert advice on "Why should I use dovecot LDA" ? Is > there any benefit in terms of functionality or performance ? > > Any advice/suggestion/feedbacks welcome. > > > Thanks > Shantanui guess the difference is not dove vs exim lda ( dont know this ), its more about using dove lmtp vs lda ,lmtp should perform better then any lda, search the list archive about it Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstra?e 15, 81669 M?nchen Sitz der Gesellschaft: M?nchen, Amtsgericht M?nchen: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
** Kumar Shantanu <shantanu at techblue.co.uk> [2013-12-02 15:58]:> I have built up my email server with exim + dovecot + > clamv/spamassasin. I am using exim as LDA(local delivery agent). I > was reading about using dovecot as LDA but I couldn't find why > should I use it? > > Now, I am looking expert advice on "Why should I use dovecot LDA" ? > Is there any benefit in terms of functionality or performance ? > > Any advice/suggestion/feedbacks welcome.** end quote [Kumar Shantanu] The main reason I switched was so that I could move from procmail to seive, which is much nicer to configure. As an aside it also fixed an annoyance I had where, with my virtual domain/user setup, a directory was created for each email address that had mail sent to it (which resulted in a collection of directories for random junk spam addresses). At the time I hadn't investigated a fix, and the upgrade to Dovecot 2, with Dovecot as the LDA managing the virtual users fixed this as a side issue :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ============================================================================Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Ralls House, Parklands Business Park, Forrest Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6XP