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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: should we be able to edit imap messages?
Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 16:32:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738gqlzat.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <upzcfvkqt2r0.fsf@dod.no>

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>:
>
>> Thanks! That was the impression I was getting. I'll just leave this
>> alone then.
>
> Yes, but I think article editing actually works in nnimap.  At least it
> has worked at some point in time, because I have done it to re-thread
> articles.
>
> However the way it works, is by creating a new article when saving, and
> then deleting the old article.

Yeah, but then when you sync the server thinks it has a new message, and
if you're using other clients elsewhere, they all get the "new" message,
and... it just ends up feeling wrong, I think




  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-04  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-03  6:38 Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-03  9:55 ` Steinar Bang
2014-05-04  2:24   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-04  7:35     ` Steinar Bang
2014-05-04  8:32       ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2014-05-05 23:29         ` Dan Christensen
2014-09-24 21:26         ` Ted Zlatanov

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