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 B?ren <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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > kivitendo mit Schnelleinstieg zu RB-Druckvorlagen im Linux-Magazin 07 > DELUG-DVD Ausgabe > > Richardson & B?ren GmbH > Jan B?ren > K?lnstr. 311 > 53117 Bonn > > USt-IdNr. DE238288407 > Telefon: 0228 92 98 2012 > > > Durchwahl: 0228 92 97 8965
> The most crucial difference is that LDA is intended for delivering email > to a *real* user. > > AkiThanks Aki. Pardon my ignorance, but why does it matter? In other words, what is it that makes LDA better for a *real* user and LMTP better for a virtual user? Thanks, Michael
On 26/06/2016 02:39, Michael Fox wrote:>> The most crucial difference is that LDA is intended for delivering >> email >> to a *real* user. >> >> Aki > > > Thanks Aki. > > Pardon my ignorance, but why does it matter? In other words, what is > it that makes LDA better for a *real* user and LMTP better for a > virtual user? > > Thanks, > MichaelWe've used LDA for virtual users for a very very long time, though we use multiple front ends, each with postfix/dovecot and mysql (replicated DB) they all talk to one big storage backend via NFS (as do the pop3/imap/webmails servers), we looked at lmtp once but saw no advantages given the setup. -- If you have the urge to reply to all rather than reply to list, you best first read http://members.ausics.net/qwerty/