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




On Mon Jul  6 18:53:41 2009, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 17:40 -0700, Ned Freed wrote:
> 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".
> Then
> moves of messages to the folder with this annotation provide the
> server with
> the necessary information that this message is considered to be spam
> by the
> user. And by the same token, moving a message from this folder can be
> construed
> as the message not being considered spam after all.

This is just trying to turn a folder into a keyword, but without full
keyword semantics.

+1.

It's fundamentally no different from clients trying to replace the \Deleted keyword with a Trash mailbox, and has all the related issues, which we presumably all know. (Or else can find the attempt at documenting them I once tried).

This is compounded by the state being a tristate rather than binary - messages are "Ham", or "Spam", or else "The user has not expressed any decision". Should I move all my messages into another folder to mark them as good ham?

Dave.
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