[Dovecot] xexec and dovecot 1.1

[Marc Perkel]

Scott Silva wrote:
> 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.
>

That's right. I'm assuming that anyone who is running Dovecot also runs 
an MTA. My idea for using IMAP as an outgoing transport is just to move 
the outgoing message from the client to dovecot, then dovecot hands it 
off locally to the MTA, and the MTA sends it to the destination. I'm not 
suggesting Dovecot become an MTA.