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Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> Wed, 13 August 2014 00:24 UTC

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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:16:56 -0700
From: Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>
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> On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 16:54:30 CEST, Ned Freed wrote:
> >> Or are you saying it would be fine for us to have such a
> >> header, but not to
> >> leak it?
> >
> > It's one thing to manifest such a marker in your IMAP store as
> > a header. People
> > have been exposing various sorts of store metadata that way for
> > years, and it
> > seems to have been Mostly Harmless.

> I'm afraid that once these headers show up in GMail, these will become a
> de-facto standard.

> I don't have a horse in this race -- but I have seen what happens when a
> major player does something non-standard and people assume that it must've
> been the correct thing.

Good point. Consider my position changed to "don't do this, period".

As for the with clauses, they provide a "solution" for mail that undergoes
final delivery, but not for IMAP APPEND.

				Ned

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