Re: [Asrg] Patrik Falstrom's mailflow chart -- "upstream

David Nicol <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:08:33 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg.filtering
Organization tipjar LLC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Terry Sullivan wrote:

>My sense is that, for the purposes of this list, it's best to proceed 
>from the assumption that "upstream" communication from an MUA is not 
>only potentially possible, but perhaps even desirable.
>

Hey -- doing this doesn't even require new protocols.  IMAP includes 
facility for moving
a message from one folder to another, does it not?  An ad-hoc standard 
could be implemented
entirely by defining special implications of moving a message into a 
folder with a particular
name.