On Wednesday 02 August 2006 21:51, Marc Perkel took the opportunity to say: > JamesDR wrote: > > And this differs from SMTP AUTH in what way? > > With SMTP AUTH te authentication for the outbound email isn't > necessarilly the same as the incoming email.
But that would be both stupid and unnecessary.
> If you use IMAP to send
> email then the user has to know the IMAP password to send email. It also
> doesn't require a separate connection on a separate port. Why use 2
> protocols when you can use one?
Mainly because both protocols exist and work. You should pointed this out
*before* SMTP AUTH was defined.
> > IMAP/IMAP SEND
> > Mail storage for ISP? Say 100MB. (ISP WILL HAVE TO allocate this much
> > for every user, say you have 40K users... you can see how expensive
> > this will become.) Help desk calls because of over limit? Quite a few
> > because the email client will just keep the messages on the server.
>
> There would have to be a POP SEND as well.
But that's, like, 2 protocols as well. Except they go in the same connection.
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