On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 09:11 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Does Evolution support the tagging of outgoing mails as > > "organisation-sensitive" and hence generate the appropriate mail > > headers, and conversely, when an email comes in with mail headers > > specifying a sensitivity level does Evolution tag the mail appropriately? > > I don't actually know what you mean by organisation-sensitive or > sensitivity level, I can only guess.
<https://www.google.com/search?q=data+classification+and+sensitivity+levels>. (I would have sent it privately, but emails to your email address bounced). > Filters can be set that will read headers in incoming mail that can set > labels, assign colours, assign/adjust scores. > > But I found out, long ago, that when it comes to labelling messages it > just sets something *like* label1, label2, label3, and you have to > assign meanings to those labels on the client (work, home, later). And > they only mean something to it on *that* client. If a label1 message > is read on another client that set up their labels in another order, it > gets whatever they set up on their label1. About the only well > supported flag I know of in email is the "important" or prioritise > flag. > > With various email clients, these labels or flags are not put into the > message body (nowhere that I can see), they're in the metadata that the > client keeps in its own index or added to the filename the email is > stored as when using maildir (likewise with some mail servers). > > In the past I'd received emails from a government source which came > with a "classification" level somewhere, but it's not something you see > in everyday mail, so whether there's a standard for it, or they just > bung text in the subject line, I do not know. > > Looking through my archives, I see they shoved [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] onto > the end of the subject line, and had these headers: > > x-protective-marking: VER=2012.3, NS=gov.au, SEC=UNCLASSIFIED, > ORIGIN=their-email-address-was-here > x-original-protective-marking: VER=2012.3, NS=gov.au, SEC=UNCLASSIFIED, > ORIGIN=my-email-address-was-here > x-classifier: janusSEAL for Outlook 2.6.2 > > The x- prefix indicates something non-standard, and I suspect only > means something to their internal mail system. Evolution can be set to > show headers of your choice in the mail reading window pain, but you're > not going to see an interpreted result, just all that raw text after > the header. > > I think they'd have at least three ways of doing that: Custom mail > software, custom plug-in for the mail software, processing by the mail > server before sending. > > Email signatures can be used to add boilerplate notices, but for > organisations that *require* such things and don't want it it left up > to an email author to use their email program properly, it's often done > by their mailserver as they process outgoing mail. > > I suppose you could set up a few different signatures on the client, > that the mail server would react to and set other headers > appropriately. That's work with almost any email client that lets you > pick a specific signature when you write a message. > > There are various add-ons to emails that are custom and rely on > specific software, or so rare that hardly anything implements them. > (again, relying on using specific software). And it's relying that any > replies to such special messages keep special headers in their replies, > which they probably won't. > > > > Does Evolution, when using IMAP, provide the functionality to leave > > the mails on the server or mirror them locally if desired? > > Yes, Evolution does what IMAP is intended to do and leave emails on the > server. And it can do local caching. > > > > Does Evolution, when setting up the mail interface, provide the > > functionality to auto configure the mail server definitions or do you > > have to set them up manually? > > There is a feature where it pulls configuration data from a well-known > address on a server (*). Some (other) mail clients seem to do this not > by querying the domain of the mail server you're wanting to use, but > some global database which obviously only works for services listed > with that database. > > If your mail server was example.com and you started to set up an > account on Evolution for john...@example.com it'd try: > http://autoconfig.example.com/mail/config-v1.1.xml to fill in all the > other technical details for the user. Which, according to the specs, > could simply be general mail server stuff, or can have user-specific > details. > > At least that address works when I set up my mail system, I don't know > if there's other variations on the well-known address. Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
