Courier has this - you can configure an 'outbox' that is polled
i think the contents are either sent to the MTA for smtp , or handled via an internal smtp server
extending either protocol to handle the other is odd though - look at the names of the acronyms
IMAP - internet message access protocol SMTP - simple message transfer protocol
On Aug 16, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Andrew Hutchings wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 10:30 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:46 AM -0700 Marc Perkel marc@perkel.com wrote:
Why not extend the IMAP protocol to send email?
I recall that qpopper had a POP3 extension that did this.
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.
Regards Andrew