[Dovecot] Sending email with IMAP instead of SMTP?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Aug 16 20:52:25 EEST 2005


On 16.8.2005, at 20:43, Jacob Elder wrote:

> Ever send a large attachment over a slow connection with an IMAP mail 
> store?
> The message has to be sent twice, first via SMTP then to your Sent 
> Messages
> folder. I've thought about writing a Postfix policy daemon to support 
> this a
> different way, much like GMail's POP3/SMTP support.

Lemonade IETF group is designing some kind of "submit protocol" which 
would allow this. I haven't been following them for months though, so I 
don't know their current status.
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