Re: [Dovecot] Sending email over IMAP?

Marc Perkel wrote:

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.

That wouldn't work. What would be the next SMTP server on the way expected to do? Trust that address authenticity as well?

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?

Getting such standard adopted by clients, I'd say :)

Cheers, -jkt

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