Re: [imap5] Where is IMAP5 ?

[Jan Kundrát <[e-mail]>]

On 07/22/11 11:01, Giovanni Panozzo wrote:
>> No. How IMAP can submit locally? smtp port? pipe? unix socket? shared
>> memory?
>> forking command? It will oblige IMAP sysadmins to configure IMAP server
>> softwares so they can post locally. More work than configuring
>> a SMTP server independently.
> 
> A little configuration work for one person (the server sysadmin) will
> save a lot of work for the user and helpdesk people to configure SMTP on
> hundred devices. When we used IMAP+SMTP I lost a lot of time at the
> phone with the user just to discover that... the network he was using is
> blocking outgoing SMTP (port 25) and sometimes also blocking SMTPS.

In addition to that, as someone in this thread already mentioned, if
your IMAP server supports server-side filtering via Sieve, the Sieve
implementation already has to support mail submission.

I believe that it can be assumed that if someone runs an IMAP server,
she also has access to a properly configured MTA for mail delivery.
Configuring, say, a Postfix instance to relay e-mail from the IMAP box
to the already existing MTA can be done by an average sysadmin in less
than five minutes. I'd be surprised if other platforms made this harder.

Cheers,
Jan

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