A little documentation for the maintainers (exim + cyrus)

[Ken Murchison]

James Greenhalgh wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:57:38 -0400
> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> wrote:
> 
> > James Greenhalgh wrote:
> > >
> > > I noticed in part of the documentation there is a reference to getting
> > > exim and cyrus to work together.  Sadly it calls deliver which isn't the
> > > optimal method having read recent posts.  Try this delivery transport (you
> > > can use this in the localuser director instead of local_delibery):
> > >
> > > local_lmtp:
> > >   driver = smtp
> > >   protocol = lmtp
> > >   hosts_override
> > >   hosts = localhost
> > >   allow_localhost
> > >   return_path_add
> >
> > How does this differ from the second Exim example in the docs?
> >
> > I know Matt Bernstein has a patch for doing LMTP over a UNIX socket, but
> > until its in the main distro, I don't want to document it.
> 
> *Second* exim example in the docs?  The only one I've found is one using
> deliver and a pipe.  The one above is talking to the lmtpd, over a tcp
> connection.  It's from a standard version of cyrus and a standard version of
> the latest exim version 3.xx.  Is deliver actually faster than tcp connections
> (to localhost)?  I was getting the impression that it's slow from various
> posts here.
> 
> If you could point me to said second example it'd be useful :)

doc/install-configure.html#mta  The second bullet has a LMTP over TCP
example.  Of course, this is for Exim 4.  Which documentation were you
referring to?

Please don't tell me that it was some out of date third-party FAQ  ;)

Kemn
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