On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:06:54 +1000
Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Background: my normal mail setup uses Postfix on my laptop to send
> outgoing mail. My university has blocked all outgoing ports except 80
> (and they may have a transparent proxy in front of that) and 443 on
> their wireless network. My laptop cannot contact its normal mail servers
> on any port. (I happen to run those servers, but I already have
> processes listening on 80 and 443 on the relevant servers!)
> 
Courier Imap allows the sending of mail from IMAP. I haven't tried this myself 
so therefore cannot vouch for it.

This is a snip from the courier imap config file: 
/usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd

        ##NAME: SENDMAIL:0
        #
        # If OUTBOX is defined, mail can be sent via the IMAP connection by 
copying
        # a message to the INBOX.Outbox folder.  For all practical matters,
        # INBOX.Outbox looks and behaves just like any other IMAP folder.  If 
this
        # folder doesn't exist it must be created by the IMAP mail client, just
        # like any other IMAP folder.  The kicker: any message copied or moved 
to
        # this folder is will be E-mailed by the Courier-IMAP server, by running
        # the SENDMAIL program.  Therefore, messages copied or moved to this
        # folder must be well-formed RFC-2822 messages, with the recipient list
        # specified in the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: headers.  Courier-IMAP relies on
        # SENDMAIL to read the recipient list from these headers (and delete 
the Bcc:
        # header) by running the command "$SENDMAIL -oi -t -f $SENDER", with the
        # message piped on standard input.  $SENDER will be the return address
        # of the message, which is set by the authentication module.
        #

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Regards
Mick Pollard ( lunix )
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Replicated Systems Incompatibility

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