Re: [Evolution] smtp/ssl

[Mike Leone <turgon mike-leone com>]

Jeffrey Stedfast (fejj ximian com) had this to say on 01/22/03 at 13:08: 
> Apparently you didn't read anything I nor Mark Crispin wrote.

Mark wrote "can, but shouldn't"; you wrote "can't"; Alexander wrote "can".  

> 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
>
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