> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
> > Victor Duchovni:
> >> On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> >>
> >> > One question I have is why would anyone send an email message that
> >> > is 100% identical to a message that is already sitting in an IMAP
> >> > store? It would seem that this is useful only when forwarding mail
> >> > verbatim. Is this worth the effort to adopt and forever maintain
> >> > another 1500 lines of code?
> >>
> >> This is designed for bandwidth constrained email clients
> >
> > Perhaps the question is not clear, so I will repeat it.
> >
> > What is the use case for sending an email message that is 100%
> > identical to an already received email message, as in, no user
> > content is added to the message, and no content is deleted from
> > the message?
> >
> > ? ? ? ?Wietse
> >
>
> Mail client will write message to imap folder and MTA will get the
> message. Avoid send messahe twice over the link.
Why is there a problem with sending mail to the SMTP server directly,
instead of taking an indirect route via an IMAP server?
Wietse
