Aaron Stone writes:
Hi,I work on DBMail, a SQL-backed mail delivery and storage system. We've been thinking about adding support for sending email via IMAP, perhaps using the XCOURIEROUTBOX extension. Problem is, I can't seem to find any proper documentation besides the quick description of what it does in the INSTALL file and poring over the source code. So... o Are there really no user agents that use this extension? It would be nice if there were a user agent to test against ;-)
Yes, and no: Cone. Cone uses this feature in Courier-IMAP, but not as an IMAP extension. Cone speaks an entirely different, custom, protocol when it connects to Courier-IMAP, a part of which includes functionality that's analogous to XCOURIEROUTBOX.
o Would someone like to work on defining the behavior of XCOURIEROUTBOX in an informal document so that other mail systems could implement it?
There's really nothing to define. Stuff sent to the folder defined by XCOURIEROUTBOX gets mailed, according to the headers of the message.
What more is there to document?
o Would someone like to work on formally standardizing an extension such as this one?
Although a formal standardization would certainly be welcome, I have absolutely no doubt, whatsoever, that it's not going to happen.
So, faced with the prospect of investing a large amount of effort, for something whose prospects will certainly be doomed, my lack of enthusiasm, I hope, is quite understandable.
Any kind of formal standardization of Courier's extension is not going to go anywhere until Courier has much, much, more brainshare than it does now.
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