Cyrus + (insert Best MTA here) Suggestions

[Wil Cooley]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 17:26 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> Fedora/redhat by default uses procmail as it's default lmtp.
> 
> what do you use then? Is Cyrus considered a LMTP or..?

You're confusing LMTP and LDA; the LDA is the Local Delivery Agent and
is the name of a _role_ in the process of mail handling.  LMTP is the
Lightweight Mail Transfer Protocol and is a _protocol_ used for moving
mail about, often (but not always) between the MTA and LDA.  The LDA
portion of Cyrus accepts mail as an LMTP server from a Sendmail or
Postfix LMTP client.  Procmail, unless it's changed substantially since
I last used it (which, I admit, has been a few years now), just reads
mail from stdin.

Wil
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