--On Saturday, August 30, 2014 11:58 -0400 Phillip Hallam-Baker
<phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com> wrote:
This is good working within the established specs.
IMAP almost does what we need, but not quite. What we really
need is a mechanism that makes it really easy to add an IMAP
mailing list subscription into an email client or Webmail
interface.
...
Seems to me that if the mail messages come with a header that
says 'available in IMAP form', then it would be really easy
for Google to offer me the choice of a one click subscription
to access the IMAP version.
An obvious way to do this would be to extend the "List-" header
vocabulary established in RFC 2369 (and registered in
http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-headers.xhtml#perm-headers),
presumably in conjunction with the already defined IMAP URL (see
RFCs 5092 and 5593.
Should we anticipate an I-D that lays out the details?
Of course, am MUA might want to have some mechanism (perhaps a
user profile flag) to expose those fields but that is a separate
issue and really one of convenience.
john
p.s. RFC 2369 is in extremely wide use by multiple independent
implementations (including the IETF incarnation of MAILMAN).
Can anyone think of a reason it should not be a full Standard?
Volunteers to do the writeup and herd whatever and whomever need
herding?