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

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:25:32PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Michael Kirkham wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Ned Freed wrote:
> >
> > > Please explain how moving a message to a random, arbtirarily named folder
> > > tells the server anything useful.
> >
> > Seems to me this is up to the server configuration and software running on the
> > server.  I don't see why you need a specific contract between IMAP client and
> > server for flagging spam
> 
> So that clients can have user interfaces that expose the functionality
> in a more friendly manner.

More specifically: so that users and their clients don't need to know
specific details of the server's configuration.