Mark Crispin wrote: > I don't want to jump excessively into the fray about keywords. However, > my view: > . being compatible with Bayesian filtering technology is important > . $spam should not be used; SPAM is a trademark of Hormel Corp. (a fine > company) for their highly-addictive lunch meat (which goes quite when > when consumed with Dom Perignon) > . $adult has problems. Clearly it is desirable to label crass > pornography, but there's too much of a grey area. > > $xxx is a relatively recent convention, to be used for IANA-registered > IMAP keywords which are NOT part of the IMAP specification.
... but might have a special treatment by the server. > In other words, unlike \xxx flags (which the IMAP software must know about > and have > implications in other commands), $xxx keywords are just ordinary keywords > as far as IMAP is concerned. > > An existing example is $MDNsent. Alexey __________________________________________ Home Page: http://orthanc.ab.ca/mel IETF standard related pages: http://orthanc.ab.ca/mel/devel/Links.html __________________________________________
