Re: Devin's effort

On 4/21/2015 8:45 AM, John C Klensin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 06:37:12 -0400 Tanstaafl
>> So... Mulberry has its own mini-smtp server?? That is really
>> interesting too.

> No, just an outbound queue (or, in Mulberry's case, potentially
> multiple ones of them, potentially linked to identities and/or
> accounts). I've never looked at how it is implemented, but an
> SMTP server is certainly not a requirement, only outbound queues
> and a rather lightweight SMTP (or Mail Submissing) client and
> "hold in queue" mechanism.

Lightweight SMTP client is pretty much what I meant by 'mini-smtp server'...

> Some version of this is, fwiw, just about required to support
> disconnected mode, especially if, in addition to supporting different
> accounts for incoming messages one also supports different submission
> servers for outgoing ones.

Right, and I was trying to reason out just how this differs from plain
old disconnected mode... I'll try to learn more about how it works when
I'm playing with it...

TB does have a 'Send Later' Addon that purports to do something similar,
but I've never used it...