Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs

"Chris Lewis" <clewis@nortel.com> Mon, 01 February 2010 16:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs
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Steve Atkins wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2010, at 6:59 AM, John Levine wrote:
> 
>>> Except that that isn't, I presume, the way these buttons currently
>>> work - except when somebody is subscribed to a feedback loop. It
>>> seems over-complicated and inefficient (even with BURL) to send an
>>> ARF to your own system admin, and rather more simple to just set a
>>> flag or annotation on the IMAP server.
>> You're right, for the minority of us who run IMAP.  For everyone else
>> who uses POP, mailing an ARF report back to the POP server may be the
>> best we can do.  The authserv-id from RFC 5451 isn't ideal to use as
>> the mailing address since the RFC says quite clearly that it has to
>> look like a FQDN but it doesn't actually have to be an FQDN.
>>
>> If we go down this route, we could probably add a flag to 5451 to
>> say it's OK to send ARF reports.
> 
> ... or put it in the the message, where there's one standard format
> to deal with, rather than tying it to just one of the various ways people 
> retrieve messages. Most everyone already stashes an assortment
> of metadata in the headers anyway.

Which gives you the opportunity to do more complicated things, like if 
the IMAP/POP servers aren't the place to send the notification.  In our 
case, they're not.

A X- header that has machine-readable instructions on what the reader 
should do if you hit the TiS button.

I'd envisage emailing ARF or plain forwards or site-chosen identifiers 
to a specified place.  Plus something non-SMTP.