Apparently you didn't read anything I nor Mark Crispin wrote. Jeff
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:39, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > Huh? You cannot send mail via IMAP. IMAP is for reading mail ONLY. > > That's not entirely true. At least courier imap supports the Outbox > extension: > > ##NAME: OUTBOX:0 > # > # The next set of options deal with the "Outbox" enhancement. > # Uncomment the following setting to create a special folder, named > # INBOX.Outbox > # > # OUTBOX=.Outbox > > ##NAME: SENDMAIL:0 > # > # If OUTBOX is defined, mail can be sent via the IMAP connection by copying > # a message to the INBOX.Outbox folder. For all practical matters, > # INBOX.Outbox looks and behaves just like any other IMAP folder. If this > # folder doesn't exist it must be created by the IMAP mail client, just > # like any other IMAP folder. The kicker: any message copied or moved to > # this folder is will be E-mailed by the Courier-IMAP server, by running > # the SENDMAIL program. Therefore, messages copied or moved to this > # folder must be well-formed RFC-2822 messages, with the recipient list > # specified in the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: headers. Courier-IMAP relies on > # SENDMAIL to read the recipient list from these headers (and delete the > Bcc: > # header) by running the command "$SENDMAIL -oi -t -f $SENDER", with the > # message piped on standard input. $SENDER will be the return address > # of the message, which is set by the authentication module. > # > # DO NOT MODIFY SENDMAIL, below, unless you know what you're doing. > # > > SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail > > So, yes, IMAP can certainly be used to send mail thus there isn't a real > need for SMTP anymore - theoretically. Practically, I've neither tried > it and would also think that it would take quite some user training and > also configuration work on the MUA side to have this a feasible solution. > > Alexander Skwar _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
