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

[Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ned Freed writes:
> The obvious way to make this work in IMAP is with a standardized 
> folder annotation saying "messages put in this folder were flagged as 
> spam".

I think what Thunderbird and Apple Mail do is to set specific message 
flags on messages in whatever folders they happen to be in: $Junk if 
the user said a particular message is spam, $autojunk if tb 
autonomously decided that message is spam, $nonjunk and $autononjunk 
for the opposite. (I may be wrong about the exact flag names.)

This was specified in some expired draft, which IMO now has been frozen 
by deployment. Apple Mail and Thunderbird add up to >10% for me. Time 
for an informational RFC, perhaps. "Widely-used IMAP flag names"?

Arnt