Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Not just MUAs do IMAP. MDAs can do it too. And procmail is also a > MDA (according to its documentation). However procmail is no longer > developed and is too old to support IMAP. But couldn't mailagent > support IMAP via a Perl module?
Er... how and why? I'm really confused on where IMAP and MDAs ever meet.
The normal chain is like this:
MTA->MDA->Mail Store->IMAP->MUA
For your statement to be meaningful the MDA would have to be moved between
IMAP and MUA. I just don't ever see an MDA there nor can I fathom a reason
for it to be there. Unless someone is using Fetchmail on an IMAP store. In
that case it goes something like:
MTA->MDA->Mail Store->IMAP->Fetchmail->MTA->MDA->MUA
Of course this gets into the whole debate on fetchmail treating IMAP as a
glorified POP and we're back to where we're started, IE, the MDA isn't
speaking IMAP.
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