14 Aug
2012
14 Aug
'12
10:47 a.m.
On 13/08/2012 19:27, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
- Timo Sirainen dovecot@dovecot.org:
I'm also considering implementing an SMTP submission server, which works only as a proxy to the real SMTP server. The benefits of it would mainly be:
- It could support BURL command and other extensions required by LEMONADE. The real SMTP server would see only regular DATA commands.
- Would make SMTP AUTH easy to implement regardless of what the real SMTP server is. Nice move! Especially since I recall Wietse being not very inclined to implement anything alike.
Annoyingly Apple implemented burl for postfix, submitted the patch, but Wietse declined it (for reasons I would need to remind myself of - I think some implementation concerns, but mainly "who is using it, lets see the clients first")
I would also be very interested to see BURL support appear. It appears to offer bandwidth reductions (my customers are all on slow dialup links), and at least some apple clients (IOS?) support it
Cheers
Ed W