paul@955 | 1 | = Local SMTP Delivery = |
paul@955 | 2 | |
paul@955 | 3 | By employing local SMTP, the burden of routing messages to suitable storage |
paul@955 | 4 | becomes a configuration problem within the mail system itself. Here, imip-agent |
paul@955 | 5 | connects to the mail transport agent (MTA) and sends a message to an |
paul@955 | 6 | explicitly-indicated local user such as, for example: |
paul@955 | 7 | |
paul@955 | 8 | {{{ |
paul@955 | 9 | local+vincent.vole@example.com |
paul@955 | 10 | }}} |
paul@955 | 11 | |
paul@955 | 12 | The message is then routed to a mail delivery mechanism, perhaps by converting |
paul@955 | 13 | the local address to a local user identity: |
paul@955 | 14 | |
paul@955 | 15 | {{{ |
paul@955 | 16 | vole |
paul@955 | 17 | }}} |
paul@955 | 18 | |
paul@955 | 19 | The local delivery mechanism would then deposit the message in the user's mailbox. |
paul@955 | 20 | |
paul@955 | 21 | Where the mail system must instead route messages to mailbox providers |
paul@955 | 22 | employing LMTP, some more effort is required. For Exim, some sample |
paul@955 | 23 | configuration files are provided in `conf/exim/lmtp` to route messages for local |
paul@955 | 24 | users to LMTP endpoints. |