Hi Stephan, On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, Stephan Bosch wrote:
LMTP currently does not support AUTH.
Bummer. Thought so.
What is your use case? Most people hide LMTP behind a firewall, or don't expose it through TCP/IP in the first place.
The port is currently only available to a few trusted machines, but having auth available would have been a nice benefit in case the firewall gets misconfigured. Cyrus for example will expose the LMTP port via TCP if configured, but expects valid user credentials.
The larger use-case is a migration from cyrus to dovecot. As it's not just the MDA but also the MTA installation that is being migrated I need a way to deliver mail from the old MTA to the new MDA. LMTP comes in handy. https://github.com/ixs/lmtp_proxy/blob/master/README.md#minmal-downtime-migration-of-users has a rough invocation of the steps needed for that.
As I said, LMTP auth isn't critical for this, but would have been a nice addition.
cheers, Andreas
