On Oct 15, 2019, at 8:07 AM, Peter da Silva <res...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A mail server speaks SMTP for both inbound and outbound That’s only useful if you’ve configured Fossil to integrate with a third-party bidirectional SMTP server, which is *not* the only way to configure Fossil’s email integration: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/alerts.md#advanced Even if you did decide to tie your Fossil instance to a separate SMTP server for outbound email alerts, it’s a separate software integration for the inbound path, as I pointed out in my prior reply. Outbound requires writing an RFC 2822 message to a file or pipe, then calling “sendmail -ti” or similar on it. Inbound requires integrating with mbox, Maildir, DMBS storage, etc. You don’t get one for free by writing the other. Are you volunteering to write at least one of these inbound integrations? drh hasn’t decided to write any of them yet, and none of the other big Fossil contributors have decided they want to take such a project on, either. Someone needs to have the itch; who? Then with one of those written, we’ll want several more, because there’s half a dozen common alternatives to the way this can work. As I said in the prior reply, my impression is that drh simply isn’t interested in doing any of these, because he’d rather finish his own SMTP server, the partially-complete one currently built into Fossil. But his time isn’t infinite, so he’s apparently got better things to do than finishing it. Maybe he’ll eventually give up on that project and write one or more of these integrations with a third-party SMTP server. But that also has yet to eventuate. > IMAP/POP/webmail is all part of the user interface stack… That was just an illustration to show that the ability to send email via SMTP doesn’t mean you automatically get the ability to receive email via SMTP. Even when the same software is used for both communication directions, it’s a separate integration to do both tasks. In any case, a web forum is also part of the UI stack, so it is no surprise that Fossil Forums should also exhibit the sorts of asymmetries you find in other email-to-thingy systems. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users