Thank you for the pointers. People say RTFM, as if that's rude, but it's good to know, especially if there is documentation of ongoing development or a "road map" for future work.
On July 28, 2021 10:51:50 AM AKDT, Antonio Leding tech@leding.net wrote:
Making no assertions\judgements as to the goal or intended path to get there…just helping with the original question…
Based on the submission server link below, it appears you will need to use the same auth mechanisms for submission as you do for imap\pop. So
Good enough reason to integrate MSA (Mail Submission Agent) capabilities into the MUA (Mail User Agent).
Suggestion box: This should be able (in the future) to handle "tricks" like archiving sent messages alongside received messages or simply copying sent messages into an IMAP sent folder on the server.
https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/submission_server/ https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/
This is all quite new then and under active development.
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.