On 12/16/2017, 5:10:14 AM, Stephan Bosch <stephan at rename-it.nl> wrote:> Op 12/14/2017 om 6:07 PM schreef Tanstaafl: >> One other point. >> >> Adding support for something like this that also requires Clients to add >> support for it is just begging for a feature that never gets used. >> >> Stephan, are you sure there is no (fairly simple) way to make this an >> SMTP service that any email client that supports SMTP can use? > > It already is a normal compliant SMTP submission server. Just the BURL > part is something that requires additional client support.Ok, well, my ignorance is probably glaring here, but what I meant was, the make the BURL/URLAUTH pieces strictly between Dovecot and the backend SMTP server, make it invisible to the Client...
On Sat Dec 16 2017 15:41:25 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote:> Ok, well, my ignorance is probably glaring here, but what I meant was, > the make the BURL/URLAUTH pieces strictly between Dovecot and the > backend SMTP server, make it invisible to the Client...So, I take it the no response to this means that there is no way to put the BURL/URLAUTH parts such that only server support is needed, nothing special on the client side? Bummer, that means it will be a looong time if ever that this feature is usable.
On 2017-12-20 14:39, Tanstaafl wrote:> On Sat Dec 16 2017 15:41:25 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Tanstaafl > <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote: >> Ok, well, my ignorance is probably glaring here, but what I meant was, >> the make the BURL/URLAUTH pieces strictly between Dovecot and the >> backend SMTP server, make it invisible to the Client... > > So, I take it the no response to this means that there is no way to put > the BURL/URLAUTH parts such that only server support is needed, nothing > special on the client side? > > Bummer, that means it will be a looong time if ever that this feature > is > usable.Maybe take the time of the year into account and add a bit more waiting time before drawing conclusions. People might be busy with other things right now.
> On December 20, 2017 at 4:39 PM Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote: > > > On Sat Dec 16 2017 15:41:25 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Tanstaafl > <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote: > > Ok, well, my ignorance is probably glaring here, but what I meant was, > > the make the BURL/URLAUTH pieces strictly between Dovecot and the > > backend SMTP server, make it invisible to the Client... > > So, I take it the no response to this means that there is no way to put > the BURL/URLAUTH parts such that only server support is needed, nothing > special on the client side? > > Bummer, that means it will be a looong time if ever that this feature is > usable.Tanstaafl, maybe you could explain what you think the BURL/URLAUTH stuff is for, or do you have some particular use case you would be using it? Client support already is not required, and yes, it might take a long time before clients support it. Aki