[Dovecot] Sending email with IMAP instead of SMTP?

[Jacob Elder]

Is there any client support for this?

On Tue 16 Aug 02005 at 11:48:23AM -0500, bclements at io-networks.com wrote:
> 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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Jacob Elder