[imp] server imap different then smtp

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:10:57 -0400


Quoting Alexander Skwar <ASkwar@DigitalProjects.com>:

> I'm not sure - does IMP do SMTP at all, or does it just call the PHP
> mail() function?

You can do SMTP, you can call sendmail or a compatible wrapper on the 
command line, or you can use mail(). One of the first two will give you 
vastly better results.

> Anyhow, it would also be nice to be able to specify the SMTP server per
> identity.  I fetch mail with fetchmail from quite some POP servers and
> sort them into different folders/files with procmail which I then access
> thru the IMAP server.  However, it'd be nice to set a SMTP server
> depending on the identity used when sending out mail.

Yup. Patch?

-chuck

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