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Re: Message Attributes

2004-12-16 05:40:19

Charles Lindsey writes:
Therefore, I would suggest using something based on the MIME parameters, such as

   Annotations: classification=top_secret;
        archived-at="http://foo.example/123456";;
        x-spamassassin-score=5

Note that this scheme is fundamentally incompatible with IMAP. In IMAP, message headers are invariant. Once a client has downloaded a particular field, it can cache that forever, so that field can never change. (Search for msg-att-static in the IMAP RFC.)

You probably don't want any mail system extension to be fundamentally incompatible with IMAP...

Arnt