Re: Allowing IMAP/POP to Send Email

[Marc Perkel]

Gino Cerullo wrote: On 2-Aug-06, at 6:29 PM, Jason Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FYI: Courier-IMAP has had this feature for some time. You can configure it so that any mail message dropped into an IMAP subfolder named (e.g.) "Outbox" will be auto-sent - i.e. piped into /usr/sbin/sendmail. Completely removes the need for SMTP. Of course, it would really require all MUAs to be rewritten to "hide" this technical backend skulduggery from the end-user. They should just be able to hit "Send" as usual. --  Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 If it's piped into '/usr/sbin/sendmail' then it is still using SMTP. Sendmail is an SMTP server. Yes - that is the plan. You use POP/IMAP to transport the message to the server when it is piped into SMTP. The idea isn't for IMAP to deliver the email. It is just a transport to get the message from the client back to the server when it is sent via SMTP. I'm not against SMTP. I'm just trying to say that it isn't the best choice to get the message from the client when you already have an authenticated connection to the server established.