Re: IMAP client sends messages without SMTP

[Philip Guenther <guenther+imap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, M. Karpelès wrote:
...
> I just had a look at this draft as we have a mail server (including 
> imap) in which we'd be interested to implement this kind of feature, 
> however this draft only list possible ways of achieving message 
> submission over imap and does not define which one should be used, nor 
> how.

I believe that draft was input to the discussion that then occurred on the 
lemonade mailing list and in face-to-face meetings, where it was 
eventually concluded that doing submission directly inside IMAP is the 
Wrong Thing for a number of reasons.  From that came the 'trio', RFCs 
4467-4469, which avoided those issues.

If you have concerns about this then you should review the lemonade 
mailing list archive *before* reopening the discussion or starting a new 
proposal, or else you'll be arguing from a position of ignorance.  There 
were strong proponents on both sides of the discussion when this was being 
considered and yet the consensus, as I recall, was strongly for the models 
supported by the RFCs that were published.


Philip Guenther