Re: IMAP client sends messages without SMTP

[Timo Sirainen <tss@xxxxxx>]

On 6.7.2010, at 19.12, Maxim Masiutin wrote:

>  Do you know any rfc draft on an IMAP extension that allows an IMAP
>  client  to  avoid  using  SMTP  to sending a message? That extension
>  should  have  provided  a  command for the client to tell the server
>  what message to send from a mailbox? Thank you in advance.

Is it really that you want to avoid SMTP protocol, or you just want to avoid a new connection to another port? For Dovecot a few people wrote XEXEC command plugin a while ago for executing "external programs", and one example for that was SMTP. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/xexec

I'm not hugely interested in any kind of a send-mail-over-IMAP extension, but XEXEC-kind of an interface where you still talk SMTP seems like a better idea to me than converting full SMTP syntax over to IMAP.