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- I have recently read RFC 1203 (2/91). A question occurred
- me when I saw the following sentence (page 3): "This should allow
- the IMAP protocol to evolve away from its current reliance on RFC822".
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- Is there any work being done in order to support other
- message types (for example, X.400 P2(84) or P2(88)) ? I suppose
- this could be interesting since the same UA could be used for the
- following configurations:
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- 1)
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- UA <-----> IMAP Server / SMTP Server <----->
- SMTP
- 2)
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- UA <-----> IMAP Server / X.400 MTA <----->
- X.400
- 3)
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- UA <-----> IMAP Server / Mail server <----->
- SMTP or X.400
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- This configuration would allow the UA to receive RFC822 and
- P2 messages without any conversions to be applied.
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- As far as I can see, this could be achieved by:
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- 1) Fetch
- 1.1) Using the Generic, Canonical and Concrete keys concept.
- 1.2) Using the ENCODING recommended feature.
- 2) Submission
- 2.1) With some extensions to the SEND recommended feature (?).
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- Regards,
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- Antonio Franco (ammf@inesc.pt)
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- PS:
- Sorry if I am using the mailing list for a stupid question.
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