On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Marc Perkel wrote:
> IMAP accepts the message and then hands it over to Exim for sending. So
> what I'm proposing is extenting the IMAP protocol to accept outgoing
> email and hand it off to the existing MTA.
If only they had done this way back when they invented the POP protocol,
instead of (ab)using SMTP, a protocol designed for MTA-to-MTA transfers,
IMAP would probably have done the same, and a lot of people would have
been saved a lot of effort. At least, that's my view on this.
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