On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > Reinaldo de Carvalho: >> Send a unique message is faster than send twice (twice for saving on >> IMAP server). > > Saving to the IMAP server? > > So this is really about sending yourself mail via IMAP, instead of > listing yourself in the Cc: address box. > > That saves no bandwidth - instead it reverses a single MTA->IMAP > mail flow into IMAP->MTA, at the cost of another protocol. > > There are smarter ways to do this: teach the IMAP server how talk > authenticated SMTP (it can proxy the user's credentials, just like > the MTA can proxy them with BURL). Then, the IMAP server can manage > the entire message composition process instead of relying on BURL > kludges. > > Wietse >
I agree. The background idea is improve comunication between MTA->IMAP or IMAP->MTA to avoid data retransmission, then BURL can't be the better approach, but it is what was standardized. -- Reinaldo de Carvalho
