unix:lmtp vs /usr/cyrus/bin/deliver ?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Thomas Hannan wrote:
> 
>>Anyways, with the AMaViS virus filtering, could you clarify a bit? Does your 
> 
> 
> Get amavisd-new, tell your MTA to deliver to amavisd-new through SMTP, then
> deliver it back to the MTA through SMTP, and let it deliver to Cyrus through
> LMTP.
> 
> Trivial to do with postfix, if you read the docs... and *very* fast.
> 
> You don't interface amavisd-new directly to cyrus (although you COULD do so)
> so that it can generate bounces, and do some intelligent per-user
> processing.  Besides, it is safer to have it send the messages back to a
> MTA.
> 

Actually, the very latest release of amavisd-new fully supports using LMTP to 
send the messages on after scanning, so it can be used to send them to Cyrus in 
LMTP mode. It can then generate DSNs if necessary and send them out via whatever 
SMTP MTA you are using.