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Really - how does it work? What email clients talk to it? Is thee a web
page that talks about it? Should Dovecot do it too?<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bclements@io-networks.com">bclements@io-networks.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Nope, Courier does it
Brent
Quoting Marc Perkel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marc@perkel.com"><marc@perkel.com></a>:
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<pre wrap="">Here's a kind of "outside the box" thought.
Why not extend the IMAP protocol to send email? Instead of having to use
SMTP if an addition were made to the IMAP protocol then IMAP could
transport outgoing mail to the server the same way it moves messages to
the server. On the server end Dovecot would deliver outgoing email to
the host MTA via localhost:25.
The advantage would be that clients need not have to deal with a
separate configuration for outgoing email. If they have an IMAP
connection and already authenticated and perhaps encrypted, then they
can transport outgoing mail over the same connection.
Of course - email clients would have to have this feature added as well,
but it should be trivial. It could be as easy as moving a message to an
"out" box on the server, but the out box really is outgoing email rather
than a real imap folder.
Am I the first one to think of this?
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