Re: [apps-discuss] Call for Adoption: draft-ordogh-spam-reporting-using-imap

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

The idea is fine.  When we discussed this before, once we got past the
wheel reinvention phase, there seemed to be general agreement that
this particular draft is much too complex.

I'd think that all we really need is a way for an IMAP client to set
or unset a flag or status bit on a message saying that the user
considers it to be spam, and the usual IMAP stuff to tell clients that
the flag is available.  Once the flag is set, the advice would be to
do whatever they do when they get a spam report from a user.  Maybe
they move it to another folder, maybe they send an ARF report, but I
don't think that needs to be (or even should be) normative.

I also got general expressions of interest from some large providers
that offer both webmail and IMAP.  For them, I assume that they'd do
exactly what they do when a user hits the spam button in the webmail.

R's,
John