Re: plus addresses

On Thu, 2024-07-25 at 18:48 +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> On Thu 25/Jul/2024 14:23:52 +0200 Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Alessandro Vesely writes:
> > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Furthermore, how about having courier-foo automatically delivered
> > > to folder 
> > > foo, if such a folder exists, without having to create a specific
> > > .courier? 
> > > Folders can be created on an IMAP client...
> > 
> > I don't think it's wise to do this by default. This should be
> > doable already, 
> > with a .courier-default, and some scripting, so if someone were to
> > do it, 
> > themselves, they'll be responsible for all the consequences.
> > 
> > I do use folders, myself, and with a carefully-tuned .mailfilter
> > that drops 
> > mail into specific folders, that have specific purposes. Mail
> > shouldn't go 
> > there just because of the delivery address.
> 
> 
> I'd be curious to learn the reasoning behind that point.  Both
> creating an address and creating a folder need a bit of thought... 
> What unintended consequences could happen?

Alessandro,

Imagine an accountant who has folder for approved payments. He has
time-proven strategy how things move to that folder. And one day you
flip a switch and anybody could deliver anything to that precious
folder. They just need to guess the name. With transfer of lots of €s
as a consequence.

Yes, this is made up scenario. But in my opinion creating of IMAP
folder should not be enough to start routing to it. There should be one
more step to tell that I want this folder to participate in such
routing. What this step should be I leave to people who know IMAP
better than me.

-- Aidas


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