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

Yes - this is exactly what I'm thinking - keep it simple. Just use IMAP
as a tunnel into the existing SMTP port. IMAP just passes it through and
does nothing to it.

Greg A. Woods wrote:

>Of course all of these proposals are _FAR_ more complex than they really
>need to be. All IMAP clients I'm aware of can already speak SMTP (or
>are very closely tied to software that can). All that's really required
>for the basic functionality we're talking about is for the IMAP server
>to support an extension which would allow the client to request that a
>channel be opened to an SMTP server local to the IMAP server and then
>the IMAP server doesn't need to do anything special other than act as a
>secure proxy tunnel (except maybe keep an eye on the traffic and run an
>idle timer to close the tunnel if it goes inactive for too long).
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