Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-27-2008 12:30 PM Charles Marcus spake the following:
On 3/27/2008, Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Clients would have to be rewritten to support the new IMAP
extensions. If the IMAP server supported outgoing email then the
client would know it through CAPABILITIES. It would then not need to
have any outgoing email settings. It would cut client configuration
in half.
My server currently uses:
Incoming: imap.example.com
Outgoing: smtp.example.com
If dovecot 'understands' smtp, then why couldn't you just point the
outgoing to 'imap.example.com', so no Client mods would be needed?
But the clients send to port 25 on the outgoing server, unless you
force them to use something different. Port 25 is SMTP. You can have
incoming and outgoing on the same server, you just need a MTA running
along with the dovecot server.
That's right. I'm assuming that anyone who is running Dovecot also runs
an MTA. My idea for using IMAP as an outgoing transport is just to move
the outgoing message from the client to dovecot, then dovecot hands it
off locally to the MTA, and the MTA sends it to the destination. I'm not
suggesting Dovecot become an MTA.
