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 with mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp > > (currently using number 1) > I'm interessted in the differences and the advantages/disadvantages of each > of those solutions > According to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA the recommended way is to use LMTP, > since it's supposed to have a better performance > On the other hand, http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP says, that LMTP is a > backgound process, while LDA is only called when needed
and that is why LMTP is preferred instead fire up a new process for each message with all the costs you have *one* process running all the time waiting for a message to deliver you would no run SMTPD via xinetd and start the smtpd service each time someone delivers a message to your server...
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