lmtp read error

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> Not that Cyrus Murder is the only reason the use TCP LMTP.  Its entirely
> reasonable to have your MTA on a separate machine and have delivery to
> cyrus happen via TCP LMTP over the network.

Indeed. That's my setup exactly.  However, I just run lmtpd -a, bound to a
private network where only the LMTP servers and the SMTP servers are
connected to.  Thus, no authorization worries, and no SASL overhead.

> Though, if your MTA is sharing a machine with cyrus, its generally to
> your advantage to use the unix socket.

It is MUCH faster to use Unix sockets in most OSes, for one thing...

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