Re: [imap5] Where is IMAP5 ?

[Bron Gondwana <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:02:10PM -0700, Randall Gellens wrote:
> Solutions which seem to work but don't handle anything except the
> most obvious case can be dangerous.  For a while it was common for
> people to use fetchmail to retrieve mail via POP and then relay it
> via SMTP.  This is one of those solutions that seems to work but
> because it only has access to the data (the envelope being gone) can
> result in unpleasant problems.

Sure.  Except if you can optimise the most obvious case you can
actually improve life for most users, most of the time.  I'm
not proposing anything radical like "discard SMTP submission".
I'm just saying that if all you want to do is store a message to
your sent folder and have it dropped into a deliver queue, then
making it too complex to implement will be worse than making it
simple.

Bron.