Re: [Extra] "IMAP $Important Keyword and \Important Special-Use Attribute"

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:37:31 +0800, Barry Leiba wrote:
> And I already have an -01 version queued up that updates
> "Applications" Area to "Applications and Real-Time", and that fixes
> the "Changes..." section.  I'll not post it until there's more to
> post.

My only concern here is that the distinction between $Important and \Flagged
is a bit confusing.  The draft tries to explain the difference, but I fear
that MUA authors will not read the text as thoroughly as they should and
conclude that "the user clicked on the 'star' because the user thinks it is
an important email - $Important it is!"... totally missing \Flagged.

FWIW, the \Flagged definition in RFC 6154 doesn't help this at all:

	This mailbox presents all messages marked in some way as
	"important".

This is an unfortunate wording.

Anyway, overall I like this and the only issues I spotted are in section
5.1.  There seem to be strange linebreaks:

	"Adviso\nry"
	"Appli\ncations"

Jeff.

> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> wrote:
> > A few years ago, Eric from Google and I worked up the subject
> > proposal.  We never finished it, and the draft got dropped.  I'm
> > proposing reviving it here; will folks please take a look and
> > comment?:
> >
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-leiba-extra-specialuse-important/
> >
> > Google's server already implements this, and has since we originally
> > made the proposal, I believe.
> >
> > The draft also creates the necessary IANA registry for special-use attributes.
> >
> > Barry
> >
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