[Dovecot] Sending email over IMAP?

[Jakob Hirsch]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

> for sending small memo-like messages. But increasingly email is used as a
> universal point-to-point file transfer server for fairly large files, and
> having to push those files up the slow side of an asymmetric pipe
> *twice* is not user-friendly.

To prevent this, I set up a special mail address, which is automatically
cc'ed by my MUA and filtered on the server to end up in Sent folder. So,
the second transfer goes over the fast lane, which is not perfect but
improves things much. This may be not feasible for every setup, though.