Re: IMAP extensions needed for SPAM/HAM and WHITE/BLACK listing

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3 jul 2009, at 1:05, George Michaelson wrote:

> As an example, at the moment if I wish to inform google that I have  
> known spam in local folders, I have to go to the web interface and  
> manually tag. If there was an IMAP extension, I could review my  
> local baysian junk folder, remove all non-spam (and flag the senders  
> as white-listed if need be), and request the rest to be flagged as  
> spam back on the IMAP backed MS.

Doesn't moving the spam messages to the spam folder accomplish this  
already? That's what my client does.

But if you want this, I'd say that it needs to be a fractional thing,  
not a binary spam/no spam indication. For instance, the server could  
give something a spam score of 2 and the client also 2 and together  
that would be 4 so the message is presumed to be spam (assuming the  
spam threshold is 3), but in a binary system no spam OR no spam = no  
spam.