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What are the best Linux mail delivery agents (MDAs)?
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Dovecot-lda
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Sep 17, 2019
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Procmail
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Oct 3, 2017
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Cyrus
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Jun 17, 2014
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Dovecot-lda
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Don't support STMPUTF8 yet
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Great documentation
Dovecot has a thorough documentation and examples.
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Works great with postfix
Dovecot-lda is commonly paired with postfix. As such there are a lot of resources available for setting them up together.
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Supports Sieve
Requires Pigeonhole sieve plugin.
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Quota enforcing
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Mailbox indexing during mail delivery
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Natively supports maildir, mbox and dbox
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Procmail
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Reliable
Over the years procmail has only had 3 vulnerabilities found and it still does what is was inteded for. As such it is considered by many to be a "finished" product that does not require any more maintenance. It is still packaged in many major distributions.
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Not maintained
Although still stable, development of procmail has stopped.
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Easy to use, robust filtering system
Procmail uses Extended Global Regular Expressions Print (egrep) that allows for advanced recipes.
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Archaic syntax
Procmail syntax can be intimidating and lack of cohesive documentation may turn off a lot of people.
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Widely used
Procmail has over the years gathered a loyal following that still provides support and examples.
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Natively supports only mbox
Latest version supports maildir by specifying delivery path ending with a /.
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Cyrus
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Cyrus
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Supports Sieve
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Intended for sealed servers
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Natively supports maildir and mbox
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Easiest procmail replacement
Maildrop can be used with sendmail as a drop-in replacement for procmail.
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Human-readable syntax
Maildrop has a powerful, flexible, terse and easy to read and write regular-expression-like syntax.
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