An MDA is a Mail Delivery Agent. An LDA is a Local Delivery Agent.
These two terms are synonyms.
An MDA is being passed messages from an MTA and delivers it to a real or virtual mailbox.
Common choices include:
maildrop
procmail
Dovecot’s ‘dovecot-lda’ LDA
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