--On 8 February 2010 12:54:23 -0500 Chris Lewis <clewis(_at_)nortel(_dot_)com>
wrote:
By insisting on MDA-specific methods, it forces the same result as making
the assumption that all the world is IMAP (+ POP or whatever other
protocol we deign to notice). It isn't.
I'm simply claiming that the problem isn't
a single problem (1. "how to report junk messages"). It's two problems:
"2. how to report junk messages to an IMAP mailstore operator" and "3.
how to report junk messages to a POP mailstore operator".
Four: SMTP
You use SMTP to retrieve messages from a mailstore? No, I guess you mean
that you want to be able to send a report to the operator who forwarded
spam to your primary mail account. I provide a forwarding service, but if
the message isn't stored on my system, then I'm not going to trust the
report. One thing that I know about email that I've forwarded is that it
doesn't look like the message that I saw originally.
This is already a different problem.
Five: Webmail
We have a webmail service. It's an IMAP mail client. If yours isn't, then
the question is "can it flag messages" in the same way that an IMAP client
can? If it can, then an IMAP flag-like solution could be implemented in the
client.
Six: Microsoft RPC
You mean Exchange clients? They also have different problem. For example,
they haven't preserved the RFC5322 headers properly.
--
Ian Eiloart
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