[Dovecot] Re: On "Sending email with IMAP instead of SMTP?"

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme]

[Todd Vierling]:
>
>   All this discussion is being done already....
>   
>   ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/internet-drafts/draft-maes-lemonade-deliver-00.txt
>   
>   There are past I-Ds regarding other approaches to submission, but this
>   appears to be the current proposal on the table.

LDELIVER is best ignored, the solution which has broad support and
shortly will be submitted for final approval by the IESG is a trio of
standards:

  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-lemonade-catenate-05.txt
  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-lemonade-urlauth-07.txt
  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-lemonade-burl-02.txt

this allows IMAP to be IMAP and SMTP to be SMTP.  you still need to
access an SMTP server directly (which I consider a feature), but you
don't have to download or upload any data yourself, the SMTP server
will fetch it for you.

see also:
  http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/lemonade-charter.html
  http://flyingfox.snowshore.com/i-d/lemonade/
-- 
Kjetil T.