Re: [Courier-imap] NEWBIE: Failure to send mail

[Sam Varshavchik]

Peter Mann writes:

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:16:33PM +0200, Stefan Hornburg wrote:

On Fri, 19 May 2006 14:56:23 -0400
"Zembower, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I thought courier-IMAP was a system to allow users to collect and post
> email using IMAP. Am I completely off base here?

Collect, yes. Post, no.

i'm not using it, but i read about "Outbox" folder:

http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/INSTALL.html#imapsend

SENDING MAIL VIA AN IMAP CONNECTION

This server allows using the IMAP connection to send E-mail. Normally,
the IMAP protocol provides only access to mail in an existing mail
account, and mail clients must use SMTP in order to send mail. The
Courier-IMAP server has an optional setting to enable mail to be send
via an IMAP connection in a manner that should work with all existing
IMAP mail clients. This can be useful when an account is logged in from
a shared access pool which normally blocks most access to the SMTP port.

This is implemented by enabling a setting in the imapd configuration
file that designates a folder as a special "Outbox" folder. The default
setting is a folder called "Outbox" (IMAP path INBOX.Outbox), but the
name can be changed to anything. This folder, for the most part, is no
different than any other folder. If a folder by that name doesn't exist,
it needs to be created, just like any other IMAP folder. It looks and
acts like any other folder, except that each message added to the
folder, via IMAP's APPEND or COPY command, will also be mailed out by

the Courier-IMAP server to the addresses listed in the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: headers. our users must use smtp server with SMTP AUTH ... i don't know, if i can check From: with "Outbox" ...

You need to read the above, again. It has nothing to do with SMTP, authenticated or otherwise. All the above means is that if you explicitly enable this feature -- which is disabled by default -- then by moving a message into the Outbox folder, and not by pushing whatever stupid button normally your mail client uses to send mail, the message gets sent, using the sendmail program on the server.

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