Re: [Evolution] BURL in Evolution

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2020-06-02 at 07:06 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-06-01 at 20:43 +0100, André Rodier via evolution-list
> wrote:
> > Does Evolution supports the IMAP BURL extension, that saves an
> > email
> > remotely, then sends it?
> no, it does not support it.
> By the way, what is the RFC for it? Just curious.

It is more a feature of SMTP servers than clients --- although clients
would need to be aware of it.  I believe it comes out of the Lemonade
work.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4468
"""The submission profile of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
   provides a standard way for an email client to submit a complete
   message for delivery.  This specification extends the submission
   profile by adding a new BURL command that can be used to fetch
   submission data from an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
   server.  This permits a mail client to inject content from an IMAP
   server into the SMTP infrastructure without downloading it to the
   client and uploading it back to the server."""

I, personally, cannot imagine what the User Interface for such a
feature would be in a 'normal' MUA.

Most tedious to me seems the issue that the SMTP server would need
access to the IMAP message store --- which seems like a nightware from
a sys-admin perspective.

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