[Dovecot] xexec and dovecot 1.1

[Scott Silva]

on 3-27-2008 12:30 PM Charles Marcus spake the following:
> On 3/27/2008, Marc Perkel (marc at perkel.com) wrote:
>> 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. 
> 
> My server currently uses:
> 
> Incoming: imap.example.com
> Outgoing: smtp.example.com
> 
> If dovecot 'understands' smtp, then why couldn't you just point the 
> outgoing to 'imap.example.com', so no Client mods would be needed?
> 
But the clients send to port 25 on the outgoing server, unless you force them 
to use something different. Port 25 is SMTP. You can have incoming and 
outgoing on the same server, you just need a MTA running along with the 
dovecot server.

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