Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs

Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> Fri, 29 January 2010 18:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs
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On 28/Jan/10 11:46, Ian Eiloart wrote:
> --On 27 January 2010 17:22:00 +0000 John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
>> All they need to do is somehow send the message, or a pointer to a stored
>> copy of the message, back to the user's own mail system. The tricky bit
>> is that MUAs have separate configs for inbound and outbound mail, so you
>> can't just send the message via the outbound channel or you may be
>> sending
>> it to someone who's never seen it before. For IMAP you could either
>> have a special folder (what AOL does with its IMAP interface) or a new
>> flag, for POP you'd have to invent a crock of some sort.
>
> POP isn't really susceptible to simple solutions, as you say, so let's
> focus on IMAP.

I really would leave this bit out for the time being. Avoiding to 
upload the message is a minor optimization that can be carried out any 
time. (Compare it with saving sent mail by BCC rather than uploading 
the same message twice.)

IMHO it is more important to focus on _how_ and _where_, the answers 
being, respectively, ARF and abuse@<authserv-id>, where the latter is 
defined in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5451#section-2.3 Note that 
users have to configure their clients specifying which authserv-id 
they trust for each account. This stone can kill both birds.

> There seem to be four options, to me:
>
> (a) define a new flag per message,
> (b) define an ANNOTATE annotation per message,
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5257#section-3.1>
> (c) define an METADATA annotation on a mailbox,
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5464>
> (d) do something adhoc with mailboxes as is done for "spam" , "sent
> messages", "trash" and the like.
>
> Are there any other possibilities?

The IMAP UID is used to refer to a specific message (rfc5092), which 
is what could be used with BURL (rfc4468) to optimize reporting when 
the IMAP server can also be used as an MSA.