16 Aug
2005
16 Aug
'05
8:43 p.m.
Andrew Hutchings wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 10:30 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
Would it really be all that useful though? I can't see it making dovecot 1.0 at least. SMTP is standard for mail relaying for a very good reason.
This is all just theoretical. The idea isn't to eliminate SMTP. Servers would still talk SMTP to each other. The advantage is that when you configure a client you would only have to configure the IMAP. It wouldn't require an additional step for setting up outgoing email. And on the server end you wouldn't have to set up SMTP authentication because the IMAP would already do that for you. IMAP would act as a transport to get the outgoing mail from the client to the SMTP server.