Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP direct…

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Marc Perkel wrote:

> That's interesting - but why use a socket when you can talk directly to
> the IMAP port to do the same thing?

Talking to the socket is "directly", not talking IMAP. Dovecot's
imap-login also uses it.

> That way it's universal and requires no extra code.

Talking IMAP requires more code than talking to the dovecot socket.

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