Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:43:31 +
From: Cillian Sharkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
I couldn't give a definitive answer to him as to why LMTP is used
apart from saying that LMTP is more a "local" protocol, then a
"across the Internet protocol" (SMTP). So my question is, what a
>> LMTP will send the message only once to cyrus and allow cyrus to deliver the
>> message internally to the list of recipients provided during the LMTP
>> exchange with sendmail. One nice feature that this provides to cyrus is
>> single-message store, where the message is stored in the first reci
Randall S. Winchester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> RFC2033 is only 7 pages of which the first 5 are of interest, and is
> fairly light reading as RFC's go. You should take a look;
> http://www.imc.org/rfc2033
I just looked at the RFC - and it is suprisingly short. I'll read it in more
detail late
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Nadeem Hasan wrote:
> "Scot W. Hetzel" wrote:
> >
> >
> > LMTP will send the message only once to cyrus and allow cyrus to deliver the
> > message internally to the list of recipients provided during the LMTP
> > exchange with sendmail. One nice feature that this provides t
"Scot W. Hetzel" wrote:
>
>
> LMTP will send the message only once to cyrus and allow cyrus to deliver the
> message internally to the list of recipients provided during the LMTP
> exchange with sendmail. One nice feature that this provides to cyrus is
> single-message store, where the message i
If you watch the protocols, one difference should become apparent.
With SMTP, after the `.' concluding the `DATA' command, you'll only
get one response, no matter how many recipients were listed for that
message. However, with LMTP, you get a response for each recipient,
in the order that the rec
From: "Cillian Sharkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I was mentioning to a friend how Cyrus now recieves messages over LMTP.
Not
> being familiar with the protocol (nor I), he skimmed over the LMTP RFC.
From
> this brief read, he came to the conclusion that LMTP was more or less
> redundant, considering
