On 2021-03-20 7:14 a.m., Justina Colmena ~biz wrote:
Spam versus ham is not the only sort of classification I would want to do on large volumes of email -- I might want to have separate folders to automatically classify incoming messages into separate categories for, say, friends-and-family, legal-related email, specific business interests, open-source-software or technical related email, mathematics, arts or crafts or literature or hobbies, etc.
This kind of stuff must be easily configurable -- per user -- by individual end users who are not experts in editing configuration files.
Many commercial platforms specialize in this, but what you are talking about requires co-ordination between email clients and the email server backends, or ONLY in the webmail, as logic can be built on current IMAP (eg implementing logic on moving messages external to the IMAP server) but is even better implemented as server side filters during delivery.
However, that discussion goes beyond dovecot, and probably not the right place to talk about this on this list.
There are many email client technologies focused on what you are discussing.
However, we 'could' use an industry standard for email clients to be able to pass a 'Mark as Spam/NotSpam' instruction over IMAP.
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