[imp] server imap different then smtp

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

> 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?

I don't know if this is a good idea. As a lot of smtp servers don't permit 
relaying and the user is not always in the same domain as the imp server it 
would be irritating to the users if they put a smtp server in their prefs but 
the emails don't get send.

Jan.

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