dovecot - Apr 2010 - RFC 4468

You know, I was thinking: wouldn't it be nice to have RFC 4468 (Message
Submission BURL Extension) support in dovecot? Maybe we should ask the
guys from Apple to contribute some support for it, I have a gut feeling
they would gladly do so ;)

Kind regards

-- Erik.

> wouldn't it be nice to have RFC 4468
Actually, Apple contributed such support a few hours ago but it's stuck in
the mailing list queue because the patch is big.  As soon as Timo approves the
posting....

Erik Logtenberg put forth on 4/9/2010 9:12 AM:
> You know, I was thinking: wouldn't it be nice to have RFC 4468 (Message
> Submission BURL Extension) support in dovecot? Maybe we should ask the
> guys from Apple to contribute some support for it, I have a gut feeling
> they would gladly do so ;)
There's an active BURL thread on the postfix-users list right now and it
seems Wietse and Victor are open to looking at the idea.  Timo have you had
any chats with Wietse and/or Victor about BURL, Postfix, and Dovecot as of
yet?  I'm just assuming for some reason that you've interacted with
Wietse
in the past on one level or another.  My apologies if this is not the case.

Anyway, seems the time may be right to engage this feature and coordinate
with some MTA devs to get it working correctly.

Does anyone know if Firefox has support for BURL submission yet, or does it
even need it?  I've not looked at the actual message paths defined by this
extension yet.  My assumption is that with this extension, the MUA submits
the message to the IMAP server and then the IMAP server forwards it to the
MTA.  Or do I have it backwards?

-- 
Stan

> the MUA submits the message to the IMAP server and then the IMAP server
forwards it to the MTA.
The MUA submits the message to the IMAP server.  Then the MUA tells the
submission server to fetch the message from the IMAP server.  The IMAP server
does not push the message out to the MTA.