IMAP Access to IETF Email List Archives
RFC 7017
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(August 2013; No errata)
Was draft-sparks-genarea-imaparch (individual in gen area)
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Author | Robert Sparks | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7017 (Informational) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | No | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Jari Arkko | ||
Send notices to | (None) | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | No IANA Actions |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) R. Sparks Request for Comments: 7017 Oracle Category: Informational August 2013 ISSN: 2070-1721 IMAP Access to IETF Email List Archives Abstract The IETF makes heavy use of email lists to conduct its work. This often involves accessing the archived history of those email lists. Participants would like to have the ability to browse and search those archives using standard IMAP clients. This memo captures the requirements for providing a service that would allow such browsing and searching, and it is intended as input to a later activity for the design and development of such a service. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7017. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Sparks Informational [Page 1] RFC 7017 IMAP Access to IETF Email List Archives August 2013 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Requirements for IMAP Access to Archived IETF Lists . . . . . 2 3. Internationalized Address Considerations . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1. Introduction The IETF makes heavy use of email lists to conduct its work. This often involves accessing the archived history of those email lists. Requirements for improved web-based browsing and searching of these archives are captured in [RFC6778]. Participants would like to have the ability to browse and search those archives using standard IMAP clients. This memo captures the requirements for providing a service that would allow such browsing and searching, and it is intended as input to a later activity for the design and development of such a service. 2. Requirements for IMAP Access to Archived IETF Lists Many participants would prefer to access the list archives using IMAP [RFC3501]. Providing this access while meeting the following requirements will likely require an IMAP server with specialized capabilities. o The system should expose the archive using an IMAP interface, with each list represented as a mailbox. o This interface must work with standard IMAP clients. o The interface should allow users that have provided credentials to each have their own read/unread marks for messages. Allowing other annotation is desirable. The implementation should consider taking advantage of the IMAP extensions for ANNOTATE [RFC5257] and METADATA [RFC5464]. o It must be possible for administrators to set per-user storage quotas, limiting the space a user can consume with annotations. o The interface must not allow users to modify the underlying message or metadata other than the read/unread marks and annotations described above. Specifically, users must not be able to delete or insert messages, or move them between mailboxes in the archive. (Clients will, of course, be able to make local copies of messages from the archive.) Sparks Informational [Page 2] RFC 7017 IMAP Access to IETF Email List Archives August 2013 o The interface must have server-side searching enabled and should scale to support multiple simultaneous extensive searches. The server should provide the enhanced search capabilities describedShow full document text