Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

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".
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> 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.

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