[UA-EAI] WG discussions on EAI Support Self-Certification

[Jim DeLaHunt]

EAI colleagues:

Last meeting, we were talking about EAI Support Self-Certification. We 
were trying to figure out how to describe levels of EAI support, and how 
to group and frame the choices.

I just re-read this ua-eai list thread from late October. I think it's 
worth everyone looking at it again, in light of our discussion. 
Particularly this message from John Levine: "Re: [UA-EAI] [Ext] RE: EAI 
support in email tools and services" on 28 Oct 2020 14:37:27 -0400 
<https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-eai/2020-October/001143.html 
<https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-eai/2020-October/001143.html>>.

>> That's a great idea, The report must have that clearly mentioned 
>> which email solution is Fully EAI ready and which is Partly and which 
>> is not EAI ready at all
>
> It's not that simple, because few of these products try to be "solutions".
>
> For example, Postfix and Exim do a good job as MSA and MTA, but for a 
> full mail system you need an MDA, perhaps a webmail (Roundcube might 
> do it) and MUAs for your users. The only MDA we've tested that has 
> working EAI features is Courier, but it hardly matters since there are 
> no MUAs we've found that would use those features.
>
> None of the products we tested pass every test, but some work well 
> enough if you limit what you do. Coremail works well for EAI if you 
> use their web mail and their Chinese domains, but their Lunkr MUA app 
> and their IMAP or POP servers don't do EAI well at all. Gmail and the 
> Microsoft webmail products are good L1 EAI tools, but again their POP 
> and IMAP don't have EAI features so they don't work well for EAI with 
> an external MUA.
>
> As I said before, I could add a column that somehow combined the 
> scores from other columns, but I think that would be more likely to
> confuse people than to be helpful.

But the whole thread is interesting.

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