On 26/03/2013 13:39, Jan Phillip Greimann wrote:
Hi there,
I read an article about dovecot 2.2, which includes the LEMONADE
extensions, and was fascinated about the feature "Forward without
download". We have a small internet-uplink in our office and our CEO
loves to receive mails with large attachments, he also reply/forward
it, so every time the full attachments get downloaded and uploaded
again. Now the question is: Is LEMONADE supported by
desktop-mailclients like thunderbird or just mobile Clients? (Google
said nothing to this, maybe searched the wrong words)
I hope someone can help me with this.
Which client are you using?
My understanding is that you will need an SMTP server which supports
such a feature. Apple patch Postfix to support this using the BURL
extension, however, for whatever reason the patch has not been picked up
by Postfix:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/postfix/postfix-229/patches/burl.patch
I think it would be worth rattling the postfix list to see if it could
be reviewed
Note, my favourite solution would be a new RFC which triggers Dovecot to
pass to SMTP a specified message from a specified folder. This would
then mean you can use all the IMAP features to compose your message on
the server, probably bypassing lots of downloading. Further it would
mean no duplicated data when moving the message to the Sent Folder since
such an operation would be all done and tracked via IMAP. So you would
compose the message in "Outbox", ask Dovecot to send it, then (possibly
atomically) move it to Sent folder.
However, a) there is no such RFC and b) there is no client mailer which
supports it. I think Apple might be the people to rattle to get such an
idea off the ground though - they seem to have the desire to make it
happen (add in K9 developers and submit a patch to Mozilla and at least
there would be basic groundwork...)
Cheers
Ed W
