On 2006-10-24 10:30:28 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > 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
Yes, in a perfect world. But one may have several mail accounts. So, one may want to retrieve mail from one account by POP or IMAP and store it to an IMAP mailbox (from which all the mail from every account is read with a MUA). But one doesn't necessarily have a SSH access to the machine that hosts the IMAP server. Hence the possible need to deliver with the IMAP protocol (a forward to another address that corresponds to the IMAP mailbox may be another solution, but nowadays this is not necessarily reliable due to buggy spam filters and so on -- seen that!). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
