On 2010-04-12 11:03 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-04-12 10:24 AM, Mike Abbott wrote: >> Because the message in the IMAP server is brand-new, having just been >> composed by the user. For instance: >> 1. As the user composes a new message, the MUA saves the new message >> in the IMAP "Drafts" mailbox, possibly by using CATENATE (RFC 4469) >> and URLAUTH (RFC 4467) to compose it out of parts of other messages >> already on the IMAP server. >> 2. The MUA connects to Postfix and uses a BURL command instead of a >> DATA command. >> 3. Postfix connects to the IMAP server to retrieve the body of the >> message from the Drafts mailbox. >> 4. After receiving a positive response from Postfix, the MUA moves >> the message from the Drafts mailbox to the Sent mailbox.
> How would this work for messages that are never saved to the Drafts folder? > > In fact, I rarely save it to the drafts folder before sending... I was actually hoping this could somehow result in satisfaction of the past requests for a way to automatically save a copy of the message to the Sent folder without having to transfer it twice over the wire (once to send it and once to save it to the sent folder)... -- Best regards, Charles
