> I set up my Cyrus system a long time ago to use LMTP, where the MTA and > Cyrus live on the same machine. > > I'm faced with a situation where I would like to have a central MTA on a > private LAN service email, however it lacks the disk space to accomodate > the inbound (anticipated) messaging. Therefore, I would like to place > Cyrus on a server that has disk space. > > I'm reading through RFC 2033, and while I get lost in the details, my > query is about whether I can do LMTP from an MTA on the same LAN to > another system where Cyrus-Imapd lives (the RFC recommends NOT to do > this over a WAN, for understandable reasons). Or even if this is > advisable... where I should them build a separate MTA on the Cyrus > machine and service mail there (that machine is a NAS and also storing a > lot of syslog data on a large RAID-5 array, I'd rather not put the > primary MTA on it, too). I recently switched a quite complex setup from local MTA->LMTP over Unix socket to a remote MTA->LMTP via LAN/tcp. I didn't have any issues. I'm running preauthed lmtp on Cyrus using 'lmtpd -a' in cyrus.conf and have restricted access via /etc/hosts.deny like this lmtp: ALL EXCEPT mta.domain.tld Simon ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
