On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 11:05, Marc Perkel wrote:
I'm advocating for a change in the IMAP specification to allow outgoing email to be sent over the same connection as incoming rather that having to separately configure outgoing SMTP email. There are two significant advantages to this concept.
- It would greatly simplify setup for clients as they would only have to configure one connection rather than two.
Why would it be easier for a client to add a new sending method than to simply have an option to use the same credentials for smtp auth for sending.
- 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.
Smtp auth already handles this.
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?
Most current MUA's already handle smtp authentication and ssl. Why make things worse with yet another standard?
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com