Ever send a large attachment over a slow connection with an IMAP mail store? The message has to be sent twice, first via SMTP then to your Sent Messages folder. I've thought about writing a Postfix policy daemon to support this a different way, much like GMail's POP3/SMTP support.
On Tue 16 Aug 02005 at 06:37:33PM +0100, 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
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