Re: [Evolution] smtp/ssl

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Apparently you didn't read anything I nor Mark Crispin wrote.

Jeff

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:39, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
>
> > Huh? You cannot send mail via IMAP. IMAP is for reading mail ONLY.
>
> That's not entirely true.  At least courier imap supports the Outbox 
> extension:
>
> ##NAME: OUTBOX:0
> #
> # The next set of options deal with the "Outbox" enhancement.
> # Uncomment the following setting to create a special folder, named
> # INBOX.Outbox
> #
> # OUTBOX=.Outbox
>
> ##NAME: SENDMAIL:0
> #
> # If OUTBOX is defined, mail can be sent via the IMAP connection by copying
> # a message to the INBOX.Outbox folder.  For all practical matters,
> # INBOX.Outbox looks and behaves just like any other IMAP folder.  If this
> # folder doesn't exist it must be created by the IMAP mail client, just
> # like any other IMAP folder.  The kicker: any message copied or moved to
> # this folder is will be E-mailed by the Courier-IMAP server, by running
> # the SENDMAIL program.  Therefore, messages copied or moved to this
> # folder must be well-formed RFC-2822 messages, with the recipient list
> # specified in the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: headers.  Courier-IMAP relies on
> # SENDMAIL to read the recipient list from these headers (and delete the 
> Bcc:
> # header) by running the command "$SENDMAIL -oi -t -f $SENDER", with the
> # message piped on standard input.  $SENDER will be the return address
> # of the message, which is set by the authentication module.
> #
> # DO NOT MODIFY SENDMAIL, below, unless you know what you're doing.
> #
>
> SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
>
> So, yes, IMAP can certainly be used to send mail thus there isn't a real 
> need for SMTP anymore - theoretically.  Practically, I've neither tried 
> it and would also think that it would take quite some user training and 
> also configuration work on the MUA side to have this a feasible solution.
>
> Alexander Skwar