On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 09:00:20AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> ok - that's great - but - who do you go to to change the standard so
> that everyone does this?
You don't, and you can't, ever, get everyone to do it. The beauty of the
Courier implementation is that it doesn't change the standard. It
defines a mailbox with special semantics on the server.
The definition of 'standard' doesn't really apply well when it comes to
IMAP in any case. :)
> Seems to me it would solve a lot of problems - and - it would have an
> impact on spam as well in that the outgoing message that is send
> through the same connection as incomming messages could get with
> points for coming from the same server where the return address of the
> real incoming account is.
That would only apply to cases where exactly one IMAP username is
tightly bound to exactly one e-mail address. This is not the case in
quite a lot of situations.
HTH,
David.
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