From: MacShane, Tracy (Tracy.MacshaneAirservicesAustralia.com)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 23:10:33 CST

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-postfix-userspostfix.org
> [mailto:owner-postfix-userspostfix.org] On Behalf Of Mihira Fernando
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2008 10:55 PM
> To: postfix-userspostfix.org
> Subject: Re: [OT] Saving outgoing email Gmail style
>
>
> Is this true for POP3 for mail retrieval and SMTP for mail
> relaying setup in the MUA ? Cause that's what happening with Gmail.
> And you don't need a IMAP aware MUA to see this happening. It
> works with any MUA that can submit the email via SMTP.
> In fact if you use Postfix to relay mail via Gmail (you need
> a sender dependent authentication setup) , you'll see the
> same thing happening.
>
> BTW arn't 'CREATE user/Sent' and 'COPY' IMAP commands ?
>

Yes, I don't know enough about POP to talk about the commands. I also
don't know what Gmail is using in the backend. Anyway, the point remains
that it's the MUA that does all that message moving around stuff.

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