A little documentation for the maintainers (exim + cyrus)

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Fri Sep 27 10:57:38 EDT 2002



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.


> Are there really people still using sendmail? ;-)  I've been ditching it on
> any machine I've gone near for over 2 years now.  Seems much faster, more
> flexible, and easy to administer than sendmail ever was.
> 
> This is an observation by the way, not a call for a holy war ;-)
> 
> james

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