27 Apr
2004
27 Apr
'04
11:44 p.m.
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 23:25, Amelia A Lewis wrote:
There's the problem. IMAP can work between multiple servers (I do it every day, partly to keep my Important Email backed up). The protocol, which defines the COPY command, doesn't have a place for a "From " line, since it isn't a header. So, if dovecot implements it, then there are four possibilities:
- IMAP COPY from serverA (dovecot) to serverA (dovecot)
- IMAP COPY from serverA (dovecot) to serverB (dovecot)
- IMAP COPY from serverA (dovecot) to serverC (not-dovecot)
- IMAP COPY from serverC (not-dovecot) to ServerA (or B) (dovecot)
2-4 cases aren't COPY commands, it's client which does FETCH to serverA and APPEND to serverB. Unless you mean some kind of clustered server setup such as Cyrus Murder, but that doesn't have much to do with standard IMAP anymore.