[Dovecot] Sending email over IMAP?

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 11:05, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I'm advocating for a change in the IMAP specification to allow outgoing 
> email to be sent over the same connection as incoming rather that having 
> to separately configure outgoing SMTP email. There are two significant 
> advantages to this concept.
> 
> 1) It would greatly simplify setup for clients as they would only have 
> to configure one connection rather than two.

Why would it be easier for a client to add a new sending method
than to simply have an option to use the same credentials for
smtp auth for sending.

> 2) Spam reduction by authentication. The sending of email over the same 
> connection tells the server that the person who is the sender of the 
> email also has demonstrated they have access to read the account. This 
> would be a powerful whitelisting criteria for eliminating fake senders.

Smtp auth already handles this.

> So - my question. It seems that it would be easy to do this if there 
> were a standard. Dovecot would merely hand incoming email off to the 
> outgoing SMTP server. Besides the difficulty of getting a standard 
> created, am I right on my assumptions?

Most current MUA's already handle smtp authentication and
ssl.  Why make things worse with yet another standard?

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 Les Mikesell
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