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 | ||
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| IESG | IESG state | RFC 7017 (Informational) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | No | ||
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| Responsible AD | Jari Arkko | ||
| Send notices to | (None) | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
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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.
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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.)
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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 described
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