1 = Local SMTP Delivery = 2 3 By employing local SMTP, the burden of routing messages to suitable storage 4 becomes a configuration problem within the mail system itself. Here, imip-agent 5 connects to the mail transport agent (MTA) and sends a message to an 6 explicitly-indicated local user such as, for example: 7 8 {{{ 9 local+vincent.vole@example.com 10 }}} 11 12 The message is then routed to a mail delivery mechanism, perhaps by converting 13 the local address to a local user identity: 14 15 {{{ 16 vole 17 }}} 18 19 The local delivery mechanism would then deposit the message in the user's mailbox. 20 21 Where the mail system must instead route messages to mailbox providers 22 employing LMTP, some more effort is required. For Exim, some sample 23 configuration files are provided in `conf/exim/lmtp` to route messages for local 24 users to LMTP endpoints.