[Dovecot] Sending email over IMAP?

[Jan Kundrát]

Marc Perkel wrote:
> 2) Spam reduction by authentication. The sending of email over the same
> connection tells the server that the person who is the sender of the
> email also has demonstrated they have access to read the account. This
> would be a powerful whitelisting criteria for eliminating fake senders.

That wouldn't work. What would be the next SMTP server on the way
expected to do? Trust that address authenticity as well?

> So - my question. It seems that it would be easy to do this if there
> were a standard. Dovecot would merely hand incoming email off to the
> outgoing SMTP server. Besides the difficulty of getting a standard
> created, am I right on my assumptions?

Getting such standard adopted by clients, I'd say :)

Cheers,
-jkt

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