Re: IMAP client sends messages without SMTP
Philip Guenther <guenther+imap <at> sendmail.com>
2010-07-06 20:38:07 GMT
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, M. Karpelès wrote:
...
> I just had a look at this draft as we have a mail server (including
> imap) in which we'd be interested to implement this kind of feature,
> however this draft only list possible ways of achieving message
> submission over imap and does not define which one should be used, nor
> how.
I believe that draft was input to the discussion that then occurred on the
lemonade mailing list and in face-to-face meetings, where it was
eventually concluded that doing submission directly inside IMAP is the
Wrong Thing for a number of reasons. From that came the 'trio', RFCs
4467-4469, which avoided those issues.
If you have concerns about this then you should review the lemonade
mailing list archive *before* reopening the discussion or starting a new
proposal, or else you'll be arguing from a position of ignorance. There
were strong proponents on both sides of the discussion when this was being
considered and yet the consensus, as I recall, was strongly for the models
supported by the RFCs that were published.
Philip Guenther