[Dovecot] Sending email with IMAP instead of SMTP?

[bclements at io-networks.com]

Nope, Courier does it

Brent

Quoting Marc Perkel <marc at perkel.com>:

> Here's a kind of "outside the box" thought.
>
> Why not extend the IMAP protocol to send email? Instead of having to use
> SMTP if an addition were made to the IMAP protocol then IMAP could
> transport outgoing mail to the server the same way it moves messages to
> the server. On the server end Dovecot would deliver outgoing email to
> the host MTA via localhost:25.
>
> The advantage would be that clients need not have to deal with a
> separate configuration for outgoing email. If they have an IMAP
> connection and already authenticated and perhaps encrypted, then they
> can transport outgoing mail over the same connection.
>
> Of course - email clients would have to have this feature added as well,
> but it should be trivial. It could be as easy as moving a message to an
> "out" box on the server, but the out box really is outgoing email rather
> than a real imap folder.
>
> Am I the first one to think of this?
>
>




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