Reinaldo de Carvalho: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > >> > >> Mail client will write message to imap folder and MTA will get the > >> message. Avoid send messahe twice over the link. > >> > >>-- > >>Reinaldo de Carvalho > >> > > > > Why is there a problem with sending mail to the SMTP server directly, > > instead of taking an indirect route via an IMAP server? > > > > ? ? ? ?Wietse > > > > IMAP users will benefit saving bandwidth ($/Kbyte) and time (in slow > connections).
That would not explain why sending to an IMAP server is faster than sending that same message to an SMTP server. Wietse