Re: [Evolution] BURL in Evolution

[Zan Lynx <zlynx acm org>]

On 6/2/2020 9:19 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.

It would look just like the current Evolution or Thunderbird interface. 
The client would write the outgoing message into the Sent folder on the 
IMAP server. Then the SMTP command uses that message reference instead 
of writing the message contents out again.

Or it could be used for message forwarding. Instead of downloading the 
entire email plus attachments then uploading again, it could be 
forwarded by the client by reference to the original IMAP location.

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