[Dovecot] Sending email with IMAP instead of SMTP?

[Marc Perkel]

Really - how does it work? What email clients talk to it? Is thee a web 
page that talks about it? Should Dovecot do it too?

bclements at io-networks.com wrote:

>Nope, Courier does it
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>Brent
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>Quoting Marc Perkel <marc at perkel.com>:
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>>Here's a kind of "outside the box" thought.
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>>Why not extend the IMAP protocol to send email? Instead of having to use
>>SMTP if an addition were made to the IMAP protocol then IMAP could
>>transport outgoing mail to the server the same way it moves messages to
>>the server. On the server end Dovecot would deliver outgoing email to
>>the host MTA via localhost:25.
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>>The advantage would be that clients need not have to deal with a
>>separate configuration for outgoing email. If they have an IMAP
>>connection and already authenticated and perhaps encrypted, then they
>>can transport outgoing mail over the same connection.
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>>Of course - email clients would have to have this feature added as well,
>>but it should be trivial. It could be as easy as moving a message to an
>>"out" box on the server, but the out box really is outgoing email rather
>>than a real imap folder.
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>>Am I the first one to think of this?
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