--On 18 December 2009 08:18:09 +1200 Franck Martin <franck(_at_)avonsys(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Ian,
My feeling is that this is a feature badly needed now for IMAP. How to
implement it? Seems your solution reasonable.
PS, I guess it might be sensible to define an IMAP extension, so that the
client knows there's some point in setting the flags.
I'm just dealing with a case of different clients storing sent messages
in different "Sent" folders. People use different clients because
sometimes they use a web interface and sometimes some piece of software.
Franck Martin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Eiloart" <iane(_at_)sussex(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>
To: "Anti-Spam Research Group - IRTF" <asrg(_at_)irtf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Friday, 18 December, 2009 5:24:18 AM GMT +12:00 New Zealand
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs
--On 17 December 2009 07:34:49 +1200 Franck Martin
<franck(_at_)avonsys(_dot_)com>
wrote:
PS: there is no convention either on the location of the sent folder,
draft folder, contact, calendar, etc... Which obliges the user serious
fine tuning when using different clients. This capability could indicate
basic folders to the client for automatic set-up.
There isn't even a convention that you should have different mailboxes
for any purpose. Gmail broke that, when they decided that tags
(mathematically "sets") were more useful than mailboxes (mathematically
"categories"). Mailboxes are logically equivalent to restricting emails
to carrying a single tag.
As I said earlier in the thread, registration of some new IMAP flags is
probably a better way to do this. The NAME of a mailbox is language
dependent, so it should not be standardised. The NAME of a flag need not
be presented to a user, so it can be standardised. It would also allow
richer semantics, and on a per-message basis.
Of course, the presentation to the user could be as if the messages were
all filed in a separate mailbox.
--
Ian Eiloart
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