Re: [Imap-protocol] Re: Is there some way to detect servers which automatically add sent messages to the Sent mailbox?

Here's my problem with IMAP based submission.

I do not want a two-tier internet.

I do not want to have one set of protocols for simple home clients and one
set for enterprise, military and other more involved cases. Aside from
anything else, the number of complaints that the IETF protocol suite does
not do "X" that Exchange etc do cannot possibly go down as a result, and
that's not good for those of us in the open standards camp.

Equally, as a client author, I just don't see a problem with opening
another socket and speaking ESMTP to a submission server. It's just not a
problem for me. The hardest thing about it is discovery, and that's a
problem that's really easy to solve.

As I say, grab a time machine and make this proposal back in 1980, by all
means - that was the time to do it. Now? Too late to close the stable door
- the horse has not only bolted, it's taken a train which has left the
station.

I appreciate that if you're only interested in the simplest cases, an IMAP
SUBMIT command looks like a simple win. But you're winning what? Saving a
connection, making client config a little simpler. In practise, I think
clients will submit over a distinct connection, so it's not clear that a
connection is actually saved - clients could equally maintain a submission
connection too, mind, and we could make that easier.

As for configuration, that needs solving by discovery, and we're basically
there with the SRV record spec.

Dave.

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