Re: Summary of Issues Raised to date

Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 06:03:54PM -0500, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
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> 
>>* Actions should not be determined by the filters.  They simply need to 
>>label a message and actions would be determined downstream.
> 
> 
> Disagree- this would disallow several classes of filter software
> already in use.  MTAs already make filtering decisions which act to
> reject/discard/quarantine a message.  LDAs (such as procmail) combine
> filtering with actions.  Some MUAs have built-in filters that make
> decisions about messages being fetched from a remote store.
> 

How about this:

* Filters can choose to either take actions on a message or label the 
message. If a message is labeled, then the filter should not dictate 
what type of actions should be taken downstream but only provide the 
information or suggest a possible action.

Yakov