[Dovecot] Sending email with IMAP instead of SMTP?

[Jonathan Vanasco]

Courier has this - you can configure an 'outbox' that is polled

i think the contents are either sent to the MTA for smtp , or handled 
via an internal smtp server

extending either protocol to handle the other is odd though - look at 
the names of the acronyms

IMAP - internet message access protocol
SMTP - simple message transfer protocol




On Aug 16, 2005, at 1:37 PM, 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 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