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[ietf-822] "Liking" email.

2021-08-12 10:46:50
Finally published.

While you can include emojis in the content of your email, there hasn't been a way of telling the email system that the emoji is intended to signal a reaction to the message you are replying to. Now there is.

If you'd like to hit the like or love or sad or whatever button, as a reaction to a received message, the challenge, now, is getting support added to your email user software, such as Thunderbird, or GMail, or Outlook, or...

        RFC 9078
        Title:      Reaction: Indicating Summary Reaction to
                      a Message
        Author:  D. Crocker, R. Signes, N. Freed
        URL:       https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9078

The popularity of social media has led to user comfort with easily
signaling basic reactions to an author's posting, such as with a
'thumbs up' or 'smiley' graphic. This specification permits a similar
facility for Internet Mail.
--
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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