Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: add ability to send a copy of sent emails to an IMAP folder

>Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> writes:
>
>> Or maybe you mean, ONLY send via imap and don't use SMTP? Like
>> this users can use their email clients to send emails?
>
>Exactly.  You sold this feature as "have send-email send the
>message, and keep an extra copy you sent in your Sent imap folder".
>
>I pointed out that "have send-email do everything it would normally
>do before it talks to MSA or talk SMTP to send messages out, and
>instead drive imap-send to store these messages in a folder like
>imap-send users have used the program so far---as the user will send
>the messages out of their draft folder as was traditionally done by
>any imap-send users, send-email will *not* send anything out itself"
>as a possible different way send-email may want to use imap-send.
>
>These are two very different use cases.  We could organize things
>this way:
>
> A1. When imap-folder is specified, that IMAP folder will get an extra
>     copy, in addition to what send-email sends out;
>
> A2. When yet another new option, --send-email-no-send, is
>     specified, send-email would not send any messages out.  Even
>     when this option is in effect, if --imap-folder is specified,
>     that IMAP folder will get an extra copy, in addition to what
>     send-email would send out (which is nothing).
>
>Or alternatively, we can have two very different operation modes
>that both involve imap-send:
>
> B1. When --imap-sent-folder is specified, that IMAP folder will get
>     an extra copy, in addition to what send-email sent out via its
>     usual route (like by invoking MSA or talking SMTP)
>
> B2. When --imap-outgo-folder is specified, that IMAP folder will
>     get the outgo copy, later to be sent by the user (just like a
>     user of imap-send would usually use), and send-email would not
>     send out anything by its usual route.
>
>I thought the latter would be easier to explain to end-users, which
>is why "sent" or "fcc" or something like that should be in the name
>of the option when operating in the mode the patch implements.
>
>This brings up a yet another possibility.  Invoking imap-send can be
>a new third way send-email uses to send out the messages, in addition
>to existing (1) invoking a local "/usr/lib/sendmail" program, or (2)
>talking SMTP to smarthost.  That would be very easy to explain the
>operating mode B2 to users of send-email or users of imap-send, but
>it would be a bit awkward to find where B1 conceptually fits.
>