Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs

["Chris Lewis" <[e-mail]>]

Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, John Levine wrote:
> 
>>> I haven't been following this thread very closely, but why not just
>>> establish a standard role account on the MUAs designated POP or IMAP
>>> server? Such as [e-mail]? It effectively "preconfigures" the
>>> MUA since "arf" is standard and "example.com" is already known to the MUA.
>>> The less configuration the better, I think.
>> Sorry, wouldn't work.  The name of the POP or IMAP server need not
>> bear any relationship to any email address.  For example, on my
>> system, the server is named imap.iecc.com (yes, even for POP, it
>> deters the clueless) but there are not imap.iecc.com addresses at all.
> 
> I don't understand why this is relevant. If the MTA operator doesn't want 
> to support this feature, he doesn't have to. But if he does wish to 
> support the feature he needs to supply an MX record or accept mail on the 
> POP or IMAP server. Is that such a great burden? Compared to the other 
> suggestions here?

Yes.  Why tie the ARF path to the mailboxes by naming convention?  Don't 
need to.

Use [e-mail].  If they're the same machine, fine, make 
arf.domain.com alias to imap.domain.com.  If they're not, you don't have 
to rename your mail infrastructure or screw around with forwarding on 
the imap machine that you may have no control over.