Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

it, postfix lda add it (virtual/local) and dovecots do also (lda/lmtp) I have used most postfix versions from 2.1 to 3.8 and dovecot lda and lmtp and haven't have never seen duplicate headers Maybe it is just a Zimbra thing.. but we definitely see this occurring in the wild..   Maybe just poor

Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

lda add it (virtual/local) and dovecots do also (lda/lmtp) I have used most postfix versions from 2.1 to 3.8 and dovecot lda and lmtp and haven't have never seen duplicate headers Maybe it is just a Zimbra thing.. but we definitely see this occurring in the wild.. Maybe just poor

Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

also (lda/lmtp) I have used most postfix versions from 2.1 to 3.8 and dovecot lda and lmtp and haven't have never seen duplicate headers Maybe it is just a Zimbra thing.. but we definitely see this occurring in the wild.. Maybe just poor configuration, but of course as per RFC, to be clear

Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

? :) return-path is std postfix envelope sender pseudo header, bugs ? it's not a pseudo header, it is defined starting in rfc-822, as to be added at time of delievery. The LDA should add it, postfix lda add it (virtual/local) and dovecots do also (lda/lmtp) I have used most postfix versions

Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

Christian Kivalo skrev den 2024-01-21 02:08: Just wish LMTP would not end up with duplicate Return-Path headers.. Duplicate return path headers? I don't see them on my system. All mail is sent from postfix to dovecot with lmtp it simply works better with lda ? :) return-path is std postfix

Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

Michael Peddemors skrev den 2024-01-21 00:51: Just wish LMTP would not end up with duplicate Return-Path headers.. why ? ___ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org

Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

hat sieve will operate without issue in either case. >>> >>> Does it matter to sieve implementation if one uses only lmtp? >> >> LDA is older, think of LMTP as a more modern replacement.  LDA has to launch a separate process and process one messag

Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

tocol when discussing sieve. >>> >>> The documentation also mentions that lmtp is preferred over lda, and seems >>> to say in places that sieve will operate without issue in either case. >>> >>> Does it matter to sieve implementation if one uses on

Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

to say in places that sieve will operate without issue in either case. Does it matter to sieve implementation if one uses only lmtp? LDA is older, think of LMTP as a more modern replacement.  LDA has to launch a separate process and process one message at a time.  LMTP maintains a running

Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

Thanks for the reassurance.  It was a reach, hoping for some straw to grasp regarding the managesieve 4190 failure to bind. On 1/19/24 18:28, Joe Acquisto wrote: I noticed that many places in the documentation and in examples gleaned from the wilderness, refer to the LDA protocol when

Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

will operate without issue in either case. Does it matter to sieve implementation if one uses only lmtp? LDA is older, think of LMTP as a more modern replacement. LDA has to launch a separate process and process one message at a time. LMTP maintains a running service and can stream multiple messages

Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

Does it matter to sieve implementation if one uses only lmtp? No. Works here with only lmtp. -- Christian Kivalo ___ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org

Re: lda or lmtp for sieve?

Nope.  That's what I do.   With the new Tainting rules in the Exim MTA, LMTP became the easier of the two. On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 5:28 PM Joe Acquisto wrote: I noticed that many places in the documentation and in examples gleaned from the wilderness, refer to the LDA protocol

lda or lmtp for sieve?

I noticed that many places in the documentation and in examples gleaned from the wilderness, refer to the LDA protocol when discussing sieve. The documentation also mentions that lmtp is preferred over lda, and seems to say in places that sieve will operate without issue in either case. Does

Re: lda to lmtp

Hi Benny, On 11.06.21 14:14, Benny Pedersen wrote: but remember lda, ltmp is both signle recipient ^^^ are you sure? 'postconf -d' says: lmtp_destination_recipient_limit = $default_destination_recipient_limit default_destination_recipient_limit

Re: lda to lmtp

I'm a bit shocked by this this is the dovecot mailing list ... I do hope that you guys know each other IRL and are just having friendly jibes at each other (which actually would make this funny). otherwise seriously trying to start a flame war (or something) on each other I never

Re: lda to lmtp

On 13 Jun 2021, at 05:17, Benny Pedersen wrote: > i dont reply anymore to you, Best plan. -- 'Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself,' said the Patrician (...). 'The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.' --Guards!

Re: lda to lmtp

On 2021-06-13 12:12, Noel Butler wrote: BS. it was a simple question did she need to run this option or not, posting her config is immaterial and a waste of bandwith and everyones time. sayed from one with big email signatures I dont do drugs, but dealing with you I think its becoming a

Re: lda to lmtp

BS. it was a simple question did she need to run this option or not, posting her config is immaterial and a waste of bandwith and everyones time. I dont do drugs, but dealing with you I think its becoming a requirement so i'll settle for jack daniels black label instead On 12/06/2021 23:02,

Re: lda to lmtp

On 2021-06-12 13:42, Noel Butler wrote: off your drugs again benny? WTF should she provide all the config outputs, when she asked a simple question about one option, and WTF clamav came from is beyond me this is very important AFTER i replayed to help, not BEFORE, keep your own drugs

Re: lda to lmtp

On 11/06/2021 22:14, Benny Pedersen wrote: On 2021-06-11 12:42, Laura Steynes wrote: so nobody i am nobody then :) it would be nice to see postconf -n, and doveconf -n without this info its hard to help but remember lda, ltmp is both signle recipient where come clamav into the mix ?

Re: lda to lmtp

On 2021-06-11 12:42, Laura Steynes wrote: so nobody i am nobody then :) it would be nice to see postconf -n, and doveconf -n without this info its hard to help but remember lda, ltmp is both signle recipient where come clamav into the mix ? i dont know much, but its important to provide

Re: lda to lmtp

so nobody On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 12:03 PM Laura Steynes wrote: > Hi, > Although dovecot-lda serves us fine, we only average 8k messages an hour, > peaking at 11k, over 4 machines (mostly for redundancy, we've run this fine > on just 1 machine, but sometimes clamav makes things get upset, so we

lda to lmtp

Hi, Although dovecot-lda serves us fine, we only average 8k messages an hour, peaking at 11k, over 4 machines (mostly for redundancy, we've run this fine on just 1 machine, but sometimes clamav makes things get upset, so we added some more especially since we are growing rapidly, we decided to

LDA vs LMTP change in header

Switching to dovecot LMTP appears to have change the information in the received header, which appears to be causing my spam filter to wig out and mark local to local emails as spam. Here’s what the received header used to look like: Received: from [10.0.5.3]

Re: Problem switching from LDA to LMTP (with Postfix)

On 4/8/2017 2:07 μμ, Alex JOST wrote: You are searching for the complete username (%u = user@domain) but it sounds like you only want the localpart (%n). See: Thank you Alex, You are right. After switching to LMTP, Dovecot receives from Postfix a fully qualified username, whereas with LDA

Re: Problem switching from LDA to LMTP (with Postfix)

Am 04.08.2017 um 12:06 schrieb Nikolaos Milas: Hello, I am trying to switch from LDA to LMTP on a Postfix/Dovecot setup, but something is going wrong. I have followed the directions at: https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixDovecotLMTP Here is a session from dovecot.log: Aug 4 12:19:42

Problem switching from LDA to LMTP (with Postfix)

Hello, I am trying to switch from LDA to LMTP on a Postfix/Dovecot setup, but something is going wrong. I have followed the directions at: https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixDovecotLMTP Here is a session from dovecot.log: Aug 4 12:19:42 vmail2 dovecot: lmtp(3152): Connect from local

RE: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

> Actually we're one the way to get > the book back into the shop into the next few weeks. > > Peer That's great news! English version please! Michael

Re: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 26, 2016, at 2:22 AM, phil wrote: > > >> On 26/06/2016 4:50 PM, Peer Heinlein wrote: >> Am 25.06.2016 um 21:52 schrieb "Jan Büren": >> >> I've been trying to obtain an English copy of the Dovecot book for months, prior to starting

Re: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

On 26/06/2016 4:50 PM, Peer Heinlein wrote: > Am 25.06.2016 um 21:52 schrieb "Jan Büren": > > >>> I've been trying to obtain an English copy of the Dovecot book for months, >>> prior to starting this project. So far, I just can't find a copy. It's >>> too >>> bad that the author/publisher

Re: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

Am 25.06.2016 um 21:52 schrieb "Jan Büren": >> I've been trying to obtain an English copy of the Dovecot book for months, >> prior to starting this project. So far, I just can't find a copy. It's >> too >> bad that the author/publisher won't do a second printing or, if they're >> not >>

RE: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

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

RE: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

uot; and "how" part of the equation. For example, WHY LMTP vs. LDA (just one example). There are many config snippets with a couple of lines of explanation and not much about how they fit into the big picture. And some config examples (like the default_fields and override_fields issue I report

Re: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

On 2016-06-25 23:56, Michael Fox wrote: Peer: Is there any way to get an English copy of your book? imho wiki is the way to go to be up2date with information, else it would make more sense to make more informative man pages in dovecot, that will never be outdated that sayed i am

RE: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

t; > Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2016 12:53 PM > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Cc: Peer Heinlein <p.heinl...@heinlein-support.de> > Subject: RE: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP > > Hi Michael, > we´ll actually the author is reading this list as well. > Maybe he can help out

RE: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

Michael > > >> -Original Message- >> From: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of "Jan >> Büren" >> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 10:00 AM >> To: dovecot@dovecot.org >> Subject: Re: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP >> &g

RE: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

> 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, Michael

RE: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

it to the public domain as a PDF. Very frustrating. Michael > -Original Message- > From: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of "Jan > Büren" > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 10:00 AM > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Subject: Re: Postfix and Dovecot

Re: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

Hi, > But you can easily grasp the configuration details and reverse engineer > the technical german phrases ... Ah well, the link: http://www.dovecot-buch.de/buch/vorwort-timo-sirainen/ > > >> >> >> >> Thanks much, >> >> Michael >> >> >> >> > > > -- > kivitendo mit Schnelleinstieg zu

Re: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

ecot. > > 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 >

Re: Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

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 bo

Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

I'm new to Dovecot and will be using it with Postfix. I'm looking for recommendations regarding the use of Dovecot's LDA or LMTP for virtual mailbox delivery. Many of the simple examples on the wiki use LDA. So I've set that up initially. But apparently an advantage of LMTP is recipient

Re: LDA versus LMTP

it easier to insert scripts and do any custom processing which presumably is where Sieve comes in. Its also pretty easy to setup. Sounds like that's what I should be doing. OK, so how is Dovecot told to use LMTP instead of LDA? I must not be understanding something about what's in either 15-lda.conf

Re: LDA versus LMTP

Hi, the main differences LDA can be used thru unix socket or TCP socket. TCP socket can be used for multiple smtp servers deliver to an unique dovecot server. Erratum: I wanted to say : LMTP can be used thruu unix socket or TCP socket. -- CHUNKZ.NET - script kiddie and computer technician

Re: LDA versus LMTP

told to use LMTP instead of LDA? I must not be understanding something about what's in either 15-lda.conf or 20-lmtp.conf. You have to configure your mta to deliver to lmtp instead of lda. Just follow the instructions in http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixDovecotLMTP and it should just work

Re: LDA versus LMTP

to use LMTP instead of LDA? I must not be understanding something about what's in either 15-lda.conf or 20-lmtp.conf. You have to configure your mta to deliver to lmtp instead of lda. So this gets done in Postfix then?

LDA versus LMTP

My system has a great big four users. The Dovecot wiki says LMTP is more efficient, and someone on IRC told me I'd need it if I were ever to use sieve, which at this time I have no intention of doing. Should I stick with LDA, or just implement LMTP so I'm ready if ever I need it in the future? The

Re: LDA versus LMTP

Im using Dovecot for LMTP for all my mail users, since this way they are completely virtual (i.e. dont need to have a local account at all), all mail gets delivered to Maildirs owned by dovecot. Also LMTP makes it easier to insert scripts and do any custom processing which presumably is where

Re: LDA versus LMTP

to insert scripts and do any custom processing which presumably is where Sieve comes in. Its also pretty easy to setup. Sounds like that's what I should be doing. OK, so how is Dovecot told to use LMTP instead of LDA? I must not be understanding something about what's in either 15-lda.conf or 20

Re: LDA versus LMTP

to Maildirs owned by dovecot. Also LMTP makes it easier to insert scripts and do any custom processing which presumably is where Sieve comes in. Its also pretty easy to setup. Sounds like that's what I should be doing. OK, so how is Dovecot told to use LMTP instead of LDA? I must

lda and lmtp error after upgrading dovecot

Hello everybody, after upgrading dovecot on a debian wheezy installation from the standard package version (dovecot 2.1.7) to dovecot 2.2.13-11 from wheezy-backports, i noticed some errors in my logs... Apr 28 22:00:13 lmtp(4879, xx...@unipd.it): Info: copy from lmtp DATA: box=INBOX,

Re: lda and lmtp error after upgrading dovecot

Hello everybody, I forgot to add a complete transaction sample of local delivery. The following log depicts a mail delivery with two recipients; 10.1.1.1 is the last hop MTA server that calls lmtp for local delivery; the first recipient got a correct uid while the second gets a uid=error; both

Re: [Dovecot] Migrate from LDA to LMTP

to implement this? thanks. is not possibile to use Dovecot/LMTP with Qmail. LDA works fine for me (with qmail), why you need LMTP? why do you need qmail? the latest release is 1.0.3 from 1998 who right in his mind installs a 16 years unmaintained software? Because (other than you having absolutely

[Dovecot] Strange difference between mails delivered with dovecot-lda and lmtp

For a long time I have had configuration where mails were fetched by fetchmail then passed to exim and then passed to dovecot via lmtp. Recently I remove dovecot module and mails are passed from exim to dovecot via dovecot-lda Yesterday I have some kind of accident and lost my .fetchids file so a

Re: [Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail and here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP but neither dovecot-lda nor LMTP seem to be triggered whenever I send email from my MUA (Gnus). At least, I *think* I have followed the instructions correctly. Would you like me to post my dovecot config again

Re: [Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP but neither dovecot-lda nor LMTP seem to be triggered whenever I send email from my MUA (Gnus). At least, I *think* I have followed the instructions correctly. Would you like me to post my dovecot config again, and the relevant portion of sendmail.cf? Thank you very

Re: [Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/ and here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail and here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP but neither dovecot-lda nor LMTP seem to be triggered whenever I send email from my MUA (Gnus). At least, I *think* I have followed the instructions correctly. Would you like me

Re: [Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

problem is that I have followed the instructions here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/ and here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail and here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP but neither dovecot-lda nor LMTP seem to be triggered whenever I send email from my MUA (Gnus). At least, I *think* I have

Re: [Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 5 Aug 2013, John Williams wrote: Please forgive me if these are silly questions. I am a normal user, not a system administrator. I am using Dovecot as a kind of IMAP caching proxy, i.e. reading IMAP mail via Gnus + Dovecot + Offlineimap.

Re: [Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, John Williams wrote: dovecot-lda -c config-file -d user mailfile Aha! Piping a message to the process was the step I was not aware of. does offlineimap provides logs to get to know what mails are newly arriving to

[Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

LDA or LMTP is invoked. *What works* Running the scripts manually via `sieve-filter` works fine. The next time I read from my local dovecot server the mail is all in the desired place. Also, the LMTP service is running, listening on port 24. *What doesn't work* I thought the next step would

Re: [Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

is invoked by LDA or LMTP during delivery from the upstream MTA. The purpose of this is to sort the mail into the appropriate folder during delivery, and update the Dovecot indexes at this time. ... *What doesn't work* I thought the next step would be to execute dovecot-lda manually

Re: [Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

for you, I suggest process tracing it. Also, when does LMTP process messages? When sending mail via SMTP, or when reading mail via IMAP? I would prefer to use LMTP rather than LDA. The former. Joseph Tam jtam.h...@gmail.com

Re: [Dovecot] How to troubleshoot LDA or LMTP?

Joseph Tam jtam.h...@gmail.com writes: John Williams writes: *What doesn't work* I thought the next step would be to execute dovecot-lda manually (as is suggested on the wiki and in numerous newsgroup posts), but I can't figure out how to do this. When I execute it as root and provide my

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

(Weird: this message digest got dumped into Google's spam folder. Maybe it didn't like the string in a later post (obfuscated here) master(dot)cf, which in the context of this mailing list is a postfix configuration file, but which Gmail interpret as a website. However, that domain is a

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

) Postfix, you have local(8) running as root and switching down to the user to invoke the LDA, while for LMTP the Postfix lmtp(8) process runs as an unprivileged Postfix user and the LMTP server runs as root and switches down. AFAICS the LMTP conversation itself happens as root, though, which

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

Am 29.07.2013 22:38, schrieb Martin Burgraf: Well, the background process is hogging CPU why should it do that if it is idle? and RAM while it basically does nothing. guess what takes more RAM one long-running prcoess or 5 LDA processes because you get 5 messages at the same time and

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

. If you have oodles of memory, then it's no problem keeping a LMTP resident. If you don't have enough memory and are VM disk thrashing, you'll have other problems and LDA/LMTP is the least of your worries. And when it's running as root there is always the danger of privilege escalation. LDA only

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

and switching down to the user to invoke the LDA, while for LMTP the Postfix lmtp(8) process runs as an unprivileged Postfix user and the LMTP server runs as root and switches down. AFAICS the LMTP conversation itself happens as root, though, which is a shame; I might think twice about exposing

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Martin Burgraf wrote: I'm using Dovecot together with Postfix; as I understand it, there are two ways to transfer the mail from Postfix to Dovecot. 1.) by using LDA with mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

On 07/26/2013 05:45 PM, Martin Burgraf wrote: Hi there, I'm using Dovecot together with Postfix; as I understand it, there are two ways to transfer the mail from Postfix to Dovecot. 1.) by using LDA with mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f $SENDER -a $RECIPIENT 2.) by

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 09:30 +0200, Jan Behrend wrote: You cannot use the LDA method if SMTP and IMAP services reside on different machines, which would be the case in larger scale mail system setups. Sorry, that is incorrect. Granted, it does mean putting dovecot on the SMTP servers as

[Dovecot] Problem switching from Dovecot LDA to LMTP - on dovecot 2.2.4

Dovecot LDA has been working fine for me but when I tried to follow the wiki and switch to LMTP I get: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; In postfix/main.cf I went from: mailbox_transport = dovecot-spam to mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

Joseph Tam wrote: I don't know why you would consider a background process inferior to a run-on-demand executable. Well, the background process is hogging CPU and RAM while it basically does nothing. And when it's running as root there is always the danger of privilege escalation. LDA only

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

On 7/29/2013 2:30 AM, Jan Behrend wrote: You cannot use the LDA method if SMTP and IMAP services reside on different machines, which would be the case in larger scale mail system setups. Which brings up an interesting point. With a single LMTP daemon on the Dovecot server communicating via a

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

At 4PM -0500 on 29/07/13 you (Stan Hoeppner) wrote: On 7/29/2013 2:30 AM, Jan Behrend wrote: You cannot use the LDA method if SMTP and IMAP services reside on different machines, which would be the case in larger scale mail system setups. Which brings up an interesting point. With a

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

On 7/29/2013 6:05 PM, Ben Morrow wrote: At 4PM -0500 on 29/07/13 you (Stan Hoeppner) wrote: On 7/29/2013 2:30 AM, Jan Behrend wrote: You cannot use the LDA method if SMTP and IMAP services reside on different machines, which would be the case in larger scale mail system setups. Which

[Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

Hi there, I'm using Dovecot together with Postfix; as I understand it, there are two ways to transfer the mail from Postfix to Dovecot. 1.) by using LDA with mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f $SENDER -a $RECIPIENT 2.) by using LMTP with mailbox_transport =

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

Am 26.07.2013 17:45, schrieb Martin Burgraf: I'm using Dovecot together with Postfix; as I understand it, there are two ways to transfer the mail from Postfix to Dovecot. 1.) by using LDA with mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f $SENDER -a $RECIPIENT 2.) by using LMTP

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs. LMTP

Martin Burgraf martin...@web.de writes: According to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA the recommended way is to use LMTP, since it's supposed to have a better performance. The performance gains comes mostly from avoiding the overhead of invoking an executable and spawning a new process for each

[Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP index files

In the docs it states that LDA ...takes mail from anMTAand delivers it to a user's mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index files up to date. I am wondering if LMTP also interacts with the Dovecot index files and keeps them up to date?

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP index files

On 10/3/2012 9:34 AM, l...@airstreamcomm.net wrote: In the docs it states that LDA ...takes mail from anMTAand delivers it to a user's mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index files up to date. I am wondering if LMTP also interacts with the Dovecot index files and keeps them up to date?

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP index files

On 2012-10-03 10:34 AM, l...@airstreamcomm.net l...@airstreamcomm.net wrote: In the docs it states that LDA ...takes mail from anMTAand delivers it to a user's mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index files up to date. I am wondering if LMTP also interacts with the Dovecot index files and keeps

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP index files

On 10/3/2012 10:03 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2012-10-03 10:34 AM, l...@airstreamcomm.net l...@airstreamcomm.net wrote: In the docs it states that LDA ...takes mail from anMTAand delivers it to a user's mailbox, while keeping Dovecot index files up to date. I am wondering if LMTP also

Re: [Dovecot] SUMMARY: LDA vs LMTP, Cyrus SASL, verbose_proctitle

On 2011-04-11 9:19 PM, Joseph Tam wrote: This problem present can itself, for example, when one user has a full mailbox. An LDA will return EX_TEMPFAIL, and the message will be requeued, and delivery will be retried for all recipients (even those that were successfully delivered to). I'm not

Re: [Dovecot] SUMMARY: LDA vs LMTP, Cyrus SASL, verbose_proctitle

On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 18:19 -0700, Joseph Tam wrote: Also, one significant advantage not mentioned for LMTP was that one delivery failure to multiple recipients can be disambiguated; LDA can only return an exit code to be tested by the MTA, but the MTA cannot know which recipient(s) generated

Re: [Dovecot] SUMMARY: LDA vs LMTP, Cyrus SASL, verbose_proctitle

Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 18:19 -0700, Joseph Tam wrote: Also, one significant advantage not mentioned for LMTP was that one delivery failure to multiple recipients can be disambiguated; LDA can only return an exit code to be tested by the MTA, but the MTA

[Dovecot] SUMMARY: LDA vs LMTP, Cyrus SASL, verbose_proctitle

A summary of answers I got to the questiosn I posed. Is there a reason I should prefer LMTP over LDA for local delivery? Thanks for the responses I received. The benefits reported were more/better information logging, and service isolation. Also, one significant advantage not mentioned

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP, Cyrus SASL, verbose_proctitle

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

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP, Cyrus SASL, verbose_proctitle

Quoting Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com: 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

Re: [Dovecot] LDA vs LMTP, Cyrus SASL, verbose_proctitle

Quoting Joseph Tam jtam.h...@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