[Dovecot] Sending email with IMAP instead of SMTP?

[Jacob Elder]

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 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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