Re: nnimap article editing

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:45:59 +0200 Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote: 

RS> On Thu, Oct 09 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> On Thu, 09 Oct 2008, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote: 
RS> Creating a new Message-ID would break threading.  The edited
RS> article should have the same Message-ID, as we do for nnml, etc.
>> 
>> Do you know of anything that would break if two messages have the same
>> Message-ID?  

RS> I'd be surprised if there are any problems with duplicate MIDs in mail
RS> back ends.  It's quite a normal situation, cf. (info
RS> "(gnus)Duplicates").  You can also generate multiple copies of a
RS> message (with the same MID) with `gnus-summary-copy-article' (B c) in
RS> the same group.  I never tried threading in this situation (multiple
RS> parents with the same MID).

OK, so without using Supersede: it will work thus:

1) get article contents in a buffer, keep Message-ID
2) let user edit, then on submit...
3) spool article as new and mark original expired (or read maybe?)

This will be called if BACKEND doesn't support direct editing.  So
nnmaildir and nnml for instance will not be affected.

Ted