Re: [Extra] Is this a plausible IMAP extension ?

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 28 February 2019 01:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Extra] Is this a plausible IMAP extension ?
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In article <a05121fb-a105-458a-bd69-9d6c289860b2@www.fastmail.com> you write:
>The keyword has a restricted ACL such that the user can't modify it afterwards. Not OK. Dislike. Unnecessary and likely
>to cause many issues.

I had a chat with some of the BIMI people and pointed out that
privileged IMAP flags are unlikely to work well, and in any event, if
you have IMAP clients that can put malicious stuff into your
mailstore, you've got worse problems than what logo appears next to
the phish.

R's,
John