[Dovecot] xexec and dovecot 1.1

[Marc Perkel]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 3/27/2008, Marc Perkel (marc at perkel.com) wrote:
>> After dovecot receives he outgoing message it will just do an SMTP 
>> connection to a server that is set up to receive it and relay it. 
>
> The question I have is how would you configure the Client to do this? 
> I guess just point it to the same server address as the incoming server?

Clients would have to be rewritten to support the new IMAP extensions. 
If the IMAP server supported outgoing email then the client would know 
it through CAPABILITIES. It would then not need to have any outgoing 
email settings. It would cut client configuration in half.