On 18 May 2011, at 10:31, Ian Eiloart wrote:

> No, really, don't use the LMTP transport. It's much easier to use an SMTP 
> Transport and add the line "protocol = lmtp".
> 
> You'd imagine that the LMTP transport would use the same code base, but it 
> doesn't. The only advantage of the LMTP transport is that it allows you to 
> deliver through a unix socket. The disadvantage is that it lacks most of the 
> SMTP transport features.

In fact, I think it would be good to permit the SMTP transport to deliver 
through a socket, then to deprecate the LMTP transport completely.

-- 
Ian Eiloart
Postmaster, University of Sussex
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