[Dovecot] Sending email with IMAP instead of SMTP?

[Andrew Hutchings]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 10:30 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:46 AM -0700 Marc Perkel <marc at 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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