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Hi,

I don't know if this is the place to discuss this, but at least this list has a high concentration of imap knowledge. Feel free to flame me.

This is some idea I picked up from a slashdot discussion. While it's not a standard (yet), I don't see why it couldn't be. [insert cheap joke about imap standards here].

Imap could use an "outbox". Not just a mua outbox queuing up all the mail 'till a connection is made, no, a real outbox. The mail client sends outgoing mail to the outbox on the imap server, wich hands it to the smtp server.

Advantages: Simpler mua configuration. Outgoing mail is already pre-auth'd Outgoing mail doesn't require a seperate connection Outgoing mail doesn't require a connection to the smtp port of some host, wich is very spam-esque behaviour (picture yourself in a cybercafe or corporate network where a policy is enforced). Outgoing mail always comes from the same place (think about the problems with SPF and the like when you're on the road and behind an enforcing firewall) It just seems logical... Mail goes in and out at the same place.

Disadvantages: MUAs, imap servers would need a patch

Any toughts? Is this implementation-worthy? Or push-to-standards-draft-worthy?

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