On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:59 +0000, Ed W wrote: > > MUA would have to support both of those URLAUTH and BURL extensions, so > > that it can register a temporary URL on the IMAP server, then connect to > > SMTP server and give that URL to BURL command (instead of sending the > > mail with DATA command). > > > > So from MUA's point of view it's basically the same as before: save to > > IMAP and after that send via SMTP. > > > > > > This seems like such a convolution... > > Given that the RFC already proposes some changes to the IMAP side then > it would seem sensible to get the IMAP server to do the proxy connection > to the MTA and deliver. Perhaps a simple case of adding a flag when > saving into a folder would mark the message as being required to be sent > onwards?
Well, I'm not very happy about the idea of IMAP server sending messages to SMTP server either.. :)
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