Re: [apps-discuss] Spam reporting over IMAP

[Lyndon Nerenberg <[e-mail]>]

> Why do you say this is an autonomous service? All the existing
> user-oriented spam feedback systems are are an integrated part of the
> user's email service provider's offering. Users really don't want to have
> to type in yet another hostname and username and password just to provide
> feedback to their provider's spam filters.

I agree it's part of an integrated system, but what I'm trying to get at 
is that it's a standalone component within the whole.  While the service 
presents itself as a part of the MUA, it's not part of the message store 
itself (any more than the MUA's SMTP client functionlity is).

As for configuration, I'm reasonably confident this can be managed with 
SRV records, and would expect many implementations would share the same 
authentication credentials with the message store, so it should be 
possible to roll this out in many cases with no extra configuration 
required by the end user.

--lyndon