lemonade                                                      R. Gellens
Internet-Draft                                     QUALCOMM Incorporated
Expires: May 6, 2009                                           C. Newman
                                                        Sun Microsystems
                                                        November 2, 2008


                     Internet Message Store Events
                  draft-ietf-lemonade-msgevent-07.txt

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Abstract

   One of the missing features in the existing Internet mail and
   messaging standards is a facility for server-to-server and server-to-
   client event notifications related to message store events.  As the
   scope of Internet mail expands to support more diverse media (such as
   voice mail), devices (such as cell phones) and to provide rich
   interactions with other services (such as web portals and legal
   compliance systems), the need for an interoperable notification



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   system increases.  This document attempts to enumerate the types of
   events which interest real-world consumers of such a system.

   This document describes events and event parameters which are useful
   for several cases, including notification to administrative systems
   and end users.  This is not intended as a replacement for a message
   access facility such as IMAP.


Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     1.1.  Conventions Used in this Document  . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     1.2.  Change History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
       1.2.1.  Changes from -06 to -07  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
       1.2.2.  Changes from -05 to -06  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
       1.2.3.  Changes from -04 to -05  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
       1.2.4.  Changes from -03 to -04  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       1.2.5.  Changes from -02 to -03  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       1.2.6.  Changes from -01 to -02  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       1.2.7.  Changes from -00 to -01  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       1.2.8.  Changes from draft-newman-lemonade-msgevent-00.txt
               to draft-ietf-lemonade-msgevent-00.txt . . . . . . . .  7
   2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   3.  Event Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   4.  Event Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     4.1.  Message Addition and Deletion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     4.2.  Message Flags  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     4.3.  Access Accounting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     4.4.  Mailbox Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   5.  Event Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   6.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
   7.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
   8.  Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
   9.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
     9.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
     9.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
   Appendix A.  Future Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
   Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 22











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1.  Introduction

   A message store is used to organize Internet Messages [RFC2822] into
   one or more mailboxes, possibly hierarchical, annotate them in
   various ways and provide access to these messages and associated
   meta-data.  Three different standards-based protocols have been
   widely deployed to remotely access a message store.  Post Office
   Protocol (POP) [RFC1939] provides simple download-and-delete access
   to a single mail drop (which is a subset of the functionality
   typically associated with a message store).  Internet Message Access
   Protocol (IMAP) [RFC3501] provides an extensible feature-rich model
   for online, offline and disconnected access to a message store with
   minimal constraints on any associated "fat-client" user interface.
   Finally, mail access applications built on top of Hypertext Transfer
   Protocol (HTTP) [RFC2616] which run in standards-based web browsers
   provide a third standards-based access mechanism for online-only
   access.

   While simple and/or ad-hoc mechanisms for notifications have sufficed
   to some degree in the past (e.g., Simple New Mail Notification
   [RFC4146], IMAP4 IDLE command [RFC2177]), as the scope and importance
   of message stores expands, the demand for a more complete store
   notification system increases.  Some of the driving forces behind
   this demand include:

   o  Mobile devices with intermittent network connectivity that have
      "new mail" or "message count" indicators

   o  Unified messaging systems which include both Internet and voice
      mail require support for a message waiting indicator on phones

   o  Interaction with systems for event-based or utility-computing
      billing

   o  Simplify the process of passing message store events to non-
      Internet notification systems

   o  A calendar system may wish to subscribe to MessageNew
      notifications in order to support iMIP [RFC2447].

   o  Some jurisdictions have laws or regulations for information
      protection and auditing which require interoperable protocols
      between message stores built by messaging experts and compliance
      auditing systems built by compliance experts.

   Vendors who have deployed proprietary notification systems for their
   Internet message stores have seen significant demand to provide
   notifications for more and more events.  As a first step towards



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   building a notification system, this document attempts to enumerate
   the core events that real-world customers demand.

   This document includes those events which can be generated by the use
   of IMAP4Rev1 [RFC3501] and some existing extensions.  As new IMAP
   extensions are defined, or additional event types or parameters need
   to be added, the set specified here can be extended by means of an
   IANA registry with update requirements, as specified in Section 6.

1.1.  Conventions Used in this Document

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119]
   When these words appear in lower-case or with initial-capital
   letters, they are not RFC 2119 key words.

1.2.  Change History

   This section to be removed if/when this draft is published as an RFC.

1.2.1.  Changes from -06 to -07

   o  Corrected occurrences of "MUST not" to be "MUST NOT".

   o  Clarified that an "IP address" can be IPv4 or IPv6.

   o  Updated RFC 2434 to RFC 5226.

   o  Clarified "subscription list" in MailboxSubscribe description.

   o  Changed specification of the timestamp parameter to be when the
      event which triggered the notification occurred, not when the
      notification was generated.

   o  Clarified that the timestamp parameter is expressed in local time
      and offset from UTC, and is normally in RFC 3339 format.

   o  Clarified the description of the flagNames parameter so that
      space-separation is not normative.

   o  Clarified the description of the tags parameter so that comma-
      separation is not normative.

   o  Clarified the description of the user parameter to not rely on
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   o  Added new paragraph to Abstract explaining that the notfications
      described here are not intended as a substitute for a message
      access facility such as IMAP.

   o  Clarified that the timestamp parameter MAY be an approximate
      value.

1.2.2.  Changes from -05 to -06

   o  Added discussion of message integrity to Security Considerations
      (Section 7).

   o  Reviewed use of "may", "must" and "should" for conversion to
      "MAY", "MUST" and "SHOULD".

   o  Reworded MessageNew and MessageExpire text.

   o  Additional clarifying text added to Future Extensions
      (Appendix A).

   o  Added explicit prohibition on \Recent in FlagsSet to match the one
      in FlagsClear (\Recent was also explicitly excluded from
      flagNames).

   o  Clarified that Logout disconnection types are suggestions only.

   o  Added serverDomain and serverPort parameters, and clarified
      clientPort.

   o  Clarified that a kilobyte is 1024 octets.

   o  Clarified that FlagSet and FlagClear include one or more flags or
      keywords.

   o  Changed "cover about 95% of the known use cases" to "an
      overwhelming majority of known use cases" in Event Types
      (Section 4).

1.2.3.  Changes from -04 to -05

   o  Reworded statement on optional versus mandatory and removed Anchor
      11.

   o  Included mailbox admin events in list of exceptions in Appendix A,
      and deleted Anchor 23.






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1.2.4.  Changes from -03 to -04

   o  Added QuotaChange event.

1.2.5.  Changes from -02 to -03

   o  Fix typo in Login event

   o  Remove UIDVALIDITY from MailboxRename event.

   o  Made event names hierarchical: Changed AppendMessage to
      MessageAppend, ExpireMessage to MessageExpire, ExpungeMessage to
      MessageExpunge, NewMessage to MessageNew, OverQuota to
      QuotaExceed, UnderQuota to QuotaWithin, ReadMessages to
      MessageRead, TrashMessages to MessageTrash, SetFlags to FlagsSet,
      and ClearFlags to FlagsClear; deleted Editor's Note asking if this
      should be done.

   o  Made ACL information a future extension in MailboxCreate.

1.2.6.  Changes from -01 to -02

   o  Add text indicating that mailboxes may contain Internet messages
      and/or child mailboxes.

   o  Remove word "folder" from definition of "mailbox."

   o  Add editor's note regarding optionality in this document.

   o  Add editor's note regarding optional vs. mandatory events.

   o  Add editor's note regarding event names.

   o  Remove U.S.-centric wording regarding laws.

   o  Review uses of "will" and change as appropriate.

   o  Clarification of server address in login event.

   o  Add MailboxCreate, MailboxDelete, MailboxRename, and
      MailboxSubscribe events.

   o  Add mailboxName and oldMailboxName parameter.s

   o  Move RFC2822 from normative to informative.

   o  Add IANA Considerations and reference to RFC 2434.




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   o  Minor grammatical improvements.

   o  Incorporate edits from Alexey Melnikov.

   o  Add editor's note regarding deployment of mailbox admin events.

   o  Add Acknowledgments section.

   o  Fix formatting to add blank line between paragraphs in event and
      parameter lists.

   o  Add reference to RFC 2119 and "Conventions" section.

   o  Update RFC 2222 to RFC 4422.

1.2.7.  Changes from -00 to -01

   o  Add modseq event parameter.

   o  Add tags event parameter.

1.2.8.  Changes from draft-newman-lemonade-msgevent-00.txt to
        draft-ietf-lemonade-msgevent-00.txt

   o  Rename draft title

   o  Add Change History section.

   o  Update reference to URLAUTH.

   o  Add FlagsSet, FlagsClear events and flagNames parameter.  Update
      future events section to reflect this change.

   o  Removed unnecessary normative reference to NAMESPACE.


2.  Terminology

   The following terminology is used in this document:

   mailbox
      A container for Internet messages and/or child mailboxes.  A
      mailbox may or may not permit delivery of new messages via a mail
      delivery agent.







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   mailbox identifier
      A mailbox identifier provides sufficient information to identify a
      specific mailbox on a specific server instance.  An IMAP URL can
      be a mailbox identifier.

   message access protocols
      Protocols which provide clients (e.g., a mail user agent or web
      browser) with access to the message store including but not
      limited to IMAP, POP and HTTP.

   message context
      As defined in [RFC3458].

   UIDVALIDITY
      As defined in IMAP4rev1 [RFC3501].  UIDVALIDITY is critical to the
      correct operation of a caching mail client.  When it changes, the
      client MUST flush its cache.  It's particularly important to
      include UIDVALIDITY with event notifications related to message
      addition or removal in order to keep the message data correctly
      synchronized.


3.  Event Model

   The events that are generated by a message store depend to some
   degree on the model used to represent a message store.  The model the
   IETF has for a message store is implicit from IMAP4rev1 and
   extensions, so that model is assumed by this document.

   A message store event typically has an associated mailbox name and
   usually has an associated user name (or authorization identity if
   using the terminology from SASL [RFC4422]).  Events referring to a
   specific message can use an IMAP URL [RFC5092] to do so.  Events
   referring to a set of messages can use an IMAP URL to the mailbox
   plus an IMAP UID set.

   Each notification has a type and parameters.  The type determines the
   type of event, while the parameters supply information about the
   context of the event that may be used to adjust subscription
   preferences or may simply supply data associated with the event.  The
   types and parameter names in this document are restricted to US-ASCII
   printable characters so these events can be easily mapped to an
   arbitrary notification system.  However, this document assumes
   arbitrary parameter values (including large and multi-line values)
   can be encoded with the notification system.  Systems which lack that
   feature could only implement a subset of these events.

   This document does not indicate which event parameters are mandatory



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   or optional.  That is done in documents which specify specific
   message formats or bindings to a notification system.

   For scalability reasons, some degree of filtering at event generation
   is necessary.  At the very least, the ability to turn on and off
   groups of related events and to suppress inclusion of large
   parameters (such as messageContent) is needed.  A sophisticated
   publish/subscribe notification system may be able to propagate
   cumulative subscription information to the publisher.

   Some of these events might be logically collapsed into a single event
   type with a required parameter to distinguish between the cases
   (e.g., QuotaExceed and QuotaWithin).  However until such time that an
   event subscription model is formulated, it's not practical to make
   such decisions.  We thus note only the fact that some of these events
   may be viewed as a single event type.


4.  Event Types

   This section discusses the different types of events useful in a
   message store event notification system.  The intention is to
   document the events sufficient to cover an overwhelming majority of
   known use cases while leaving less common event types for the future.
   This section mentions parameters which are important or specific to
   the events described here.  Event parameters likely to be included in
   most or all notifications are discussed in the next section.

4.1.  Message Addition and Deletion

   This section includes events related to message addition and
   deletion.

   MessageAppend
      A message was appended or concatenated to a mailbox by a message
      access client.  For the most part, this is identical to the
      MessageNew event type, except that the SMTP envelope information
      is not included as a parameter, but information about which
      protocol triggered the event MAY be included.  See the MessageNew
      event for more information.

   MessageExpire
      One or more messages were expired from a mailbox due to server
      expiration policy and are no longer accessible by the end-user.

      The parameters include a mailbox identifier which MUST include
      UIDVALIDITY, and a UID set which describes the messages.




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      Information about which server expiration policy was applied may
      be included in the future.

   MessageExpunge
      One or more messages were expunged from a mailbox by an IMAP
      CLOSE/EXPUNGE, POP3 DELE+QUIT, HTTP or equivalent client action
      and are no longer accessible by the end-user.

      The parameters include a mailbox identifier which MUST include
      UIDVALIDITY, a UID set, and MAY also indicate which access
      protocol triggered the event.

   MessageNew
      A new message was received into a mailbox via a message delivery
      agent.

      The parameters include a message identifier which for IMAP-
      accessible message stores MUST include UIDVALIDITY and UID.  The
      parameters MAY also include SMTP envelope and other arbitrary
      message and mailbox meta-data.  In some cases, the entire new
      message itself may be included.  The set of parameters SHOULD be
      adjustable to the client's preference with limits set by server
      policy.  An interesting policy, for example, would be to include
      messages up to 2K in size with the notification, but for larger
      messages to include a URLAUTH [RFC4467] reference.

   QuotaExceed
      An operation failed (typically MessageNew) because the user's
      mailbox exceeded one of the quotas (e.g., disk quota, message
      quota, quota by message context, etc).  The parameters SHOULD
      include at least the relevant user and quota, and optionally the
      mailbox.  Quota usage SHOULD be included if possible.  Parameters
      needed to extend this to support quota by context are not
      presently described in this document, but could be added in the
      future.

   QuotaWithin
      An operation occurred (typically MessageExpunges or
      MessageExpires) which reduced the user's quota usage under their
      limit.

   QuotaChange
      The user's quota was changed.








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4.2.  Message Flags

   This section includes events related to changes in message flags.

   MessageRead
      One or more messages in the mailbox were marked as read or seen by
      a user.  Note that POP has no concept of read or seen messages, so
      these events are only generated by IMAP or HTTP clients (or
      equivalent).

      The parameters include a mailbox identifier and a set of message
      UIDs.

   MessageTrash
      One or more messages were marked for future deletion by the user
      but are still accessible over protocol (the user's client may or
      may not make these messages accessible through its user
      interface).

      The parameters include a mailbox identifier and a set of message
      UIDs.

   FlagsSet
      One or more messages in the mailbox had one or more IMAP flags or
      keyword sets.

      The parameters include a list of IMAP flag or keyword names that
      were set, a mailbox identifier and a set of message UIDs that were
      impacted.  The flagNames MUST NOT include \Recent.  For
      compatibility with simpler clients, it SHOULD be configurable
      whether setting the \Seen or \Deleted flags results in this event
      or the simpler MessageRead/MessageTrash events.  By default, the
      simpler message forms SHOULD be used for MessageRead and
      MessageTrash.

   FlagsClear
      One or more messages in the mailbox had one or more IMAP flags or
      keywords cleared.

      The parameters include a list of IMAP flag or keyword names that
      were cleared, a mailbox identifier and a set of message UIDs that
      were impacted.  The flagNames parameter MUST NOT include \Recent.

4.3.  Access Accounting

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   Login
      A user has logged in to the system via IMAP, HTTP, POP or some
      other mechanism.

      The parameters include the domain name and port used to access the
      server and the user's authorization identity.  Additional possible
      parameters include the client's IP address and port, the
      authentication identity (if different from the authorization
      identity), the service name, the authentication mechanism,
      information about any negotiated security layers, a timestamp and
      other information.

   Logout
      A user has logged out or otherwise been disconnected from the
      message store via IMAP, HTTP, POP or some other mechanism.

      The parameters include the server domain name and the user's
      authorization identity.  Additional parameters MAY include any of
      the information from the "Login" event as well as information
      about the type of disconnect (suggested values include graceful,
      abort, timeout, and security layer error), the duration of the
      connection or session and other information.

4.4.  Mailbox Management

   This section lists events related to the management of mailboxes.

   MailboxCreate
      A mailbox has been created, or an access control changed on an
      existing mailbox so that it is now accessible by the user.  If the
      mailbox creation caused the creation of new mailboxes earlier in
      the hierarchy, separate MailboxCreate events are not generated for
      those as their creation is implied.

      The parameters include the created mailbox identifier, its
      UIDVALIDITY for IMAP-accessible message stores, and MAY also
      indicate which access protocol triggered the event.  Access/
      permissions information (such as ACL [RFC4314] settings) require a
      standardized format to be included, and so are left for future
      extension.

   MailboxDelete
      A mailbox has been deleted, or an access control changed on an
      existing mailbox so that it is no longer accessible by the user.
      Note that if the mailbox has child mailboxes, only the specified
      mailbox has been deleted, not the children.  The mailbox becomes
      \NOSELECT and the hierarchy remains unchanged, as per the
      description of the DELETE command in RFC 3501IMAP4rev1 [RFC3501].



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      The parameters include the deleted mailbox identifier, and MAY
      also indicate which access protocol triggered the event.

   MailboxRename
      A mailbox has been renamed.  Note that, per the description of the
      RENAME command in RFC 3501IMAP4rev1 [RFC3501], special semantics
      regarding the mailbox hierarchy apply when INBOX is renamed (child
      mailboxes are usually included in the rename, but are excluded
      when INBOX is renamed).  When a mailbox other than INBOX is
      renamed and its child mailboxes are also renamed as a result,
      separate MailboxRename events are not generated for the child
      mailboxes, as their renaming is implied.  If the rename caused the
      creation of new mailboxes earlier in the hierarchy, separate
      MailboxCreate events are not generated for those as their creation
      is implied.  When INBOX is renamed, a new INBOX is created.  A
      MailboxCreate event is not generated for the new INBOX, since it
      is implied.

      The parameters include the old mailbox identifier, the new mailbox
      identifier, and MAY also indicate which access protocol triggered
      the event.

   MailboxSubscribe
      A mailbox has been added to the server-stored subscription list,
      such as the one managed by the IMAP SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE
      commands.

      The parameters include the user whose subscription list has been
      affected and the mailbox identifier, and MAY also indicate which
      access protocol triggered the event.

   MailboxUnSubscribe
      A mailbox has been removed from the subscription list.

      The parameters include the user whose subscription list has been
      affected and the mailbox identifier, and MAY also indicate which
      access protocol triggered the event.


5.  Event Parameters

   This section lists parameters included with these events.

   admin

      Included with all events generated by message access protocols.

      The authentication identity associated with this event, as



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      distinct from the authorization identity (see "user").  This is
      not included when it is the same as the value of the user
      parameter.

   bodyStructure

      May be included with MessageAppend and MessageNew.

      The IMAP BODYSTRUCTURE of the message.

   clientIP

      Included with all events generated by message access protocols.

      The IPv4 or IPv6 address of the message store access client which
      performed the action which triggered the notification.

   clientPort

      Included with all events generated by message access protocols.

      The port number of the message store access client which performed
      an action which triggered the notification (the port from which
      the connection occurred).

   diskQuota

      Included with QuotaExceed, QuotaWithin, and QuotaChange
      notifications relating to a user or mailbox disk quota.  May be
      included with other notifications.

      Disk quota limit in kilobytes (1024 octets).

   diskUsed

      Included with QuotaExceed and QuotaWithin notifications relating
      to a user or mailbox disk quota.  May be included with other
      notifications.

      Disk space used in kilobytes (1024 octets).  Only disk space which
      counts against the quota is included.

   envelope

      May be included with the MessageNew notification.

      The message transfer envelope associated with final delivery of
      the message for the MessageNew notification.  This includes the



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      MAIL FROM and relevant RCPT TO line(s) used for final delivery
      with CRLF delimiters and any ESMTP parameters.

   flagNames

      Included with FlagsSet and FlagsClear events.  May be included
      with MessageAppend and MessageNew to indicate flags which were set
      initially by the APPEND command or delivery agent respectively.

      A list (likely to be space-separated) of IMAP flag or keyword
      names that were set or cleared.  Flag names begin with backslash
      while keyword names do not.  The \Recent flag is explicitly not
      permitted in the list.

   mailboxID

      Included in events which affect mailboxes.  URI describing the
      mailbox.  In the case of MailboxRename, this refers to the new
      name.

   maxMessages

      Included with QuotaExceed and QuotaWithin notifications relating
      to a user or mailbox message count quota.  May be included with
      other notifications.

      Quota limit on the number of messages in the mailbox, for events
      referring to a mailbox.

   messageContent

      May be included with MessageAppend and MessageNew.

      The entire message itself.  Size based suppression of this SHOULD
      be available.

   messageSize

      May be included with MessageAppend and MessageNew.

      Size of the RFC 2822 message itself in octets.  This value matches
      the length of the IMAP literal returned in response to an IMAP
      FETCH of BODY[] for the referenced message.

   messages

      Included with QuotaExceed and QuotaWithin notifications relating
      to a user or mailbox message count quota.  May be included with



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      other notifications.

      Number of messages in the mailbox.  This is typically included
      with message addition and deletion events.

   modseq

      May be included with any notification referring to one message.

      This is the 64-bit integer MODSEQ as defined in [RFC4551].  No
      assumptions about MODSEQ can be made if this is omitted.

   oldMailboxID

      URI describing the old name of a renamed or moved mailbox.

   pid

      May be included with any notification.

      The process ID of the process which generated the notification.

   process

      May be included with any notification.

      The name of the process which generated the notification.

   serverDomain  Included in Login, and optionally in Logout or other
      events.  The domain name or IP address (v4 or v6) used to access
      the server or mailbox.

   serverPort  Included in Login, and optionally in Logout or other
      events.  The port number used to access the server.  This is often
      a well-known port.

   serverFQDN

      May be included with any notification.

      The fully qualified domain name of the server which generated the
      event.  Note that this may be different from the server name used
      to access the mailbox included in the mailbox identifier.

   service

      May be included with any notification.




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      The name of the service which triggered the event.  Suggested
      values include "imap", "pop", "http", and "admincli" (for an
      administrative client).

   tags

      May be included with any notification.

      A list of UTF-8 tags (likely to be comma-separated).  One or more
      tags can be set at the time a notification criteria or
      notification subscription is created.  Subscribers can use tags
      for additional client-side filtering or dispatch of events.

   timestamp

      May be included with any notification.

      The time at which the event occurred which triggered the
      notification (the underlying protocol carrying the notification
      may contain a timestamp for when the notification was generated).
      This MAY be an approximate time.

      Timestamps are expressed in local time and contain the offset from
      UTC (this information is used in several places in Internet mail),
      and would normally be in [RFC3339] format.

   uidnext

      May be included with any notification referring to a mailbox.

      The UID that is projected to be assigned next in the mailbox.
      This is typically included with message addition and deletion
      events.  This is equivalent to the UIDNEXT status item in the IMAP
      STATUS command.

   uidset

      Included with MessageExpires, MessageExpunges, MessageRead,
      MessageTrash, FlagsSet and FlagsClear.

      This includes the set of IMAP UIDs referenced.

   uri

      Included with all notifications and refers to the IMAP server, a
      mailbox or a message.

      Typically an IMAP URL.  This can include the name of the server



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      used to access the mailbox/message, the mailbox name, the
      UIDVALIDITY of the mailbox, and the UID of a specific message.

   user

      Included with all events generated by message access protocols.

      This is the authorization identifier used when the client
      connected to the access protocol which triggered the event.  Some
      protocols (for example, many SASL mechanisms) distinguish between
      authorization and authentication identifiers.  For events
      associated with a mailbox, this may be different from the owner of
      the mailbox specified in the IMAP URL.


6.  IANA Considerations

   The IANA is requested to create a new registry for "Internet Message
   Store Events" containing two sub-registries: event names and event
   parameters.  For both event names and event parameters, entries which
   do not start with "vnd." are added by the IETF and intended for
   interoperable use.  Entries which start with "vnd." are intended for
   private use by one or more parties and are allocated to avoid
   collisions.

   The initial values are contained in this document.

   Using IANA Considerations [RFC5226] terminology, entries which do not
   start with "vnd." are allocated by IETF Consensus, while those
   starting with "vnd." are allocated First Come First Served.


7.  Security Considerations

   Notifications can produce a large amount of traffic and expose
   sensitive information.  When notification mechanisms are used to
   maintain state between a different entities, the ability to corrupt
   or manipulate notification messages could enable an attacker to
   modulate the state of these entities.  For example, if an attacker
   were able to modify notifications sent from a message store to an
   auditing server, he could modify the "user" and "messageContent"
   parameters in MessageNew notifications to create false audit log
   entries.

   A competent transfer protocol for notifications must consider
   authentication, authorization, privacy, and message integrity, as
   well as denial-of-service issues.  While the IETF has adequate tools
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   only one TCP connection, notification or publish/subscribe protocols
   which are more sophisticated than a single end-to-end TCP connection
   will need to pay extra attention to these issues and carefully
   balance requirements to successfully deploy a system with security
   and privacy considerations.


8.  Acknowledgments

   Alexey Melnikov, Arnt Gulbrandsen, and Zoltan Ordogh have reviewed
   and offered improvements to this draft.  Richard Barnes did a nice
   review during Last Call.


9.  References

9.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC5092]  Melnikov, A. and C. Newman, "IMAP URL Scheme", RFC 5092,
              November 2007.

   [RFC5226]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
              May 2008.

   [RFC3501]  Crispin, M., "INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION
              4rev1", RFC 3501, March 2003.

9.2.  Informative References

   [RFC4314]  Melnikov, A., "IMAP4 Access Control List (ACL) Extension",
              RFC 4314, December 2005.

   [RFC1939]  Myers, J. and M. Rose, "Post Office Protocol - Version 3",
              STD 53, RFC 1939, May 1996.

   [RFC2177]  Leiba, B., "IMAP4 IDLE command", RFC 2177, June 1997.

   [RFC2447]  Dawson, F., Mansour, S., and S. Silverberg, "iCalendar
              Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP)", RFC 2447,
              November 1998.

   [RFC2616]  Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
              Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext
              Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999.



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   [RFC2822]  Resnick, P., "Internet Message Format", RFC 2822,
              April 2001.

   [RFC3339]  Klyne, G., Ed. and C. Newman, "Date and Time on the
              Internet: Timestamps", RFC 3339, July 2002.

   [RFC3458]  Burger, E., Candell, E., Eliot, C., and G. Klyne, "Message
              Context for Internet Mail", RFC 3458, January 2003.

   [RFC4146]  Gellens, R., "Simple New Mail Notification", RFC 4146,
              August 2005.

   [RFC4422]  Melnikov, A. and K. Zeilenga, "Simple Authentication and
              Security Layer (SASL)", RFC 4422, June 2006.

   [RFC4467]  Crispin, M., "Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) -
              URLAUTH Extension", RFC 4467, May 2006.

   [RFC4551]  Melnikov, A. and S. Hole, "IMAP Extension for Conditional
              STORE Operation or Quick Flag Changes Resynchronization",
              RFC 4551, June 2006.


Appendix A.  Future Extensions

   This document specifies core functionality based on events which are
   believed to be well understood, have known use cases and are
   implemented by at least one deployed real-world Internet message
   store.  (A few events are exceptions to the last test only: FlagsSet,
   FlagsClear, MailboxCreate, MailboxDelete, MailboxRename,
   MailboxSubscribe, and MailboxUnSubscribe.)

   Some events have been suggested, but are postponed to future
   extensions because they do not meet this criteria.  These events
   include messages which have been moved to archive storage and may
   require extra time to access, quota by message context,
   authentication failure, user mail account disabled, annotations, and
   mailbox ACL or metadata change.  The descriptions of several events
   note additional parameters which are likely candidates for future
   inclusion.  See Section 6 for how the list of events and parameters
   can be extended.

   In order to narrow the scope of this document to something that can
   be completed, only events generated from the message store (by a
   message access module, administrative module or message delivery
   agent) are considered.  A complete mail system is normally linked
   with an identity system which would also publish events of interest
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   account created/deleted/disabled and password changed/expired.


Authors' Addresses

   Randall Gellens
   QUALCOMM Incorporated
   5775 Morehouse Drive
   San Diego, CA  92651
   US

   Email: rg+ietf@qualcomm.com


   Chris Newman
   Sun Microsystems
   800 Royal Oaks
   Monrovia, CA  91016-6347
   US

   Email: chris.newman@sun.com






























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