Re: IMAP client sends messages without SMTP

[Timo Sirainen <tss@xxxxxx>]

On 6.7.2010, at 22.26, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:

> On 07/06/2010 10:38 PM, Philip Guenther wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> The trio also avoided being implemented, though, so I wonder if the decision was the right one...

Apple has implemented it to Dovecot and Postfix (although the patch has not been integrated to either one, yet). Presumably also to iPhone at some point (I've no knowledge). So maybe they're not dead yet.