On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Bron Gondwana <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:00:07AM +1300, Adrien de Croy wrote: >> >> >> On 17/02/2012 5:40 a.m., Tony Finch wrote: >> >Adrien de Croy<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>With XSEND, you upload the message to IMAP first, then you say: >> >>> >> >>>TAG XSEND UID >> >>how do you provide the SMTP forward path? Is that scraped from the >> >>headers? >> >That's the right thing to do. You also need to do BCC: processing. >> >(sendmail -t does the right thing.) >> >> I think the guys that developed SMTP would disagree with you. The >> reason the envelope is even specified in SMTP rather than the >> receiver simply scraping them out of the message, is that sometimes >> you need to deliver a message somewhere other than the To: / bcc: >> headers. > > Rarely. I don't even know an IMAP client which supports doing that. > It's not like SMTP would disappear if you need something more complex.
mutt comes to mind, though its not doing it through SMTP but via arguments to sendmail. Well, maybe it does support them with the newer built-in smtp submission. Brandon _______________________________________________ imap5 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/imap5
