A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== http://www.dbmail.org/mantis/view.php?id=286 ====================================================================== Reported By: Samat Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: DBMail Issue ID: 286 Category: IMAP daemon Reproducibility: N/A Severity: feature Priority: normal Status: new ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 26-Dec-05 10:50 CET Last Modified: 29-Apr-06 23:39 CEST ====================================================================== Summary: Outbox folder support ala Courier IMAPd Description: Courier has a non-standard mechanism of sending e-mail via an IMAP server that does not require use of an SMTP server.
A message can be saved or copied into a configurable folder that by default is called "Outbox". Messages that are saved in this folder (via append or copy) get sent out via the local system's sendmail command, and remain in this folder until they are deleted. This is a nice thing for users to have "on the road" when they do not have easy access to an SMTP server with which to send e-mail. More documention on this feature is available here: http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/INSTALL.html#imapsend ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- paul - 28-Dec-05 09:04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This would actually not be very difficult to implement. db.c,db_copymsg needs to call a new retrieve_and_deliver function if the copy action is successful and the XCOURIEROUTBOX extension is enabled and configured. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aaron - 24-Apr-06 23:20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm going to get in touch with the Courier people to discuss this extension. Just a quick thing I notice here, the envelope sender and envelope recipient must be mapped to the From and To/CC/Bcc headers... certainly this isn't appropriate in all situations; care would have to be taken on the Bcc, too, since those are supposed to be mutually hidden. It would be interesting to take a look at the implementation; there is no formal documentation that I can find for this extension (and that's probably the reason why nobody's using it, they say!). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aaron - 29-Apr-06 23:39 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I talked with Sam Varshavchik of Courier fame, and basically he doesn't have much interest in formally documenting this beast, but we're welcome to pick over the Courier code and match its functionality. This would make a nice project for someone to dig into the IMAP code a little bit. Take a look through courier-imap-4.1.0/imap/outbox.c. We couldn't crib that file itself, but we could definitely follow the structure of it. I'm also interested in how they're using a series of forks and named pipes to talk to the sendmail process. This would appear to totally isolate the parent process from any explosions on the part of sendmail; for example, our /dev/null zombie issue (bug http://www.dbmail.org/mantis/view.php?id=194). Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 26-Dec-05 10:50 Samat New Issue 28-Dec-05 09:04 paul Note Added: 0000965 28-Dec-05 09:04 paul Category General => IMAP daemon 24-Apr-06 23:20 aaron Note Added: 0001105 29-Apr-06 23:39 aaron Note Added: 0001122 ======================================================================
