Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs

Ian Eiloart <iane@sussex.ac.uk> Thu, 17 December 2009 16:24 UTC

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--On 17 December 2009 07:34:49 +1200 Franck Martin <franck@avonsys.com> 
wrote:

>
> PS: there is no convention either on the location of the sent folder,
> draft folder, contact, calendar, etc... Which obliges the user serious
> fine tuning when using different clients. This capability could indicate
> basic folders to the client for automatic set-up.
>

There isn't even a convention that you should have different mailboxes for 
any purpose. Gmail broke that, when they decided that tags (mathematically 
"sets") were more useful than mailboxes (mathematically "categories"). 
Mailboxes are logically equivalent to restricting emails to carrying a 
single tag.

As I said earlier in the thread, registration of some new IMAP flags is 
probably a better way to do this. The NAME of a mailbox is language 
dependent, so it should not be standardised. The NAME of a flag need not be 
presented to a user, so it can be standardised. It would also allow richer 
semantics, and on a per-message basis.

Of course, the presentation to the user could be as if the messages were 
all filed in a separate mailbox.

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Ian Eiloart
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