Re: [Exim] Using IMAP protocol to SEND email ??

Phillip - I don't think it's too late to do it right. I think it would
be trivial to make it work if there were agreement out there. And - I'm
not saying to get rid of the current system - but to add this as a way
of solving a problem.

I suppose what would need to happen - the tough part - is to create
agreement on this. I assume you - speaking for Exim - would welcome
this. How do we get the right people together?

Philip Hazel wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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