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- > - Sending through IMAP would have a (marginal) benefit only if the IMAP
- > server is co-located with the client on a local area network.
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- On the contrary, sending through IMAP could have a great benefit if the
- IMAP server is co-located with the client (or to be precise, if the IMAP
- server is not located significantly further away than the nearest available
- SMTP server), in that it would not require the sender's authenticity to be
- established for each submitted message. I may be wrong but I expect IMAP
- to be used a lot from shared non-personal workstations, in which case
- authentication becomes a major issue.
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- > If the IMAP
- > server is remote (or in a foreign country), sending through IMAP is
- > potentially a horribly slow (and expensive!) operation.
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- So? Nobody would be forced to use it. Anyway, if I was in a foreign
- country for a long time I would be just as likely to want to get my home
- IMAP server to forward my messages automatically to an IMAP server closer
- to me. Is there going to be IMAP support for this? And I would want a
- "submit from message store" function so that I could say "Fred, I'm out
- of the country - please could you deal with the attached 100MB piece of
- video mail".
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