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Subject: Re: should we be able to edit imap messages?
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Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>:
>
>> I'm using dovecot to create a local offline imap setup. I've heard
>> that imap messages are supposed to be "immutable", but I'm not really
>> sure what that means in this case.
>
> I'm not sure either, but AFAIK IMAP doesn't allow articles to be
> updated, so the only way to edit an article is to save a new article and
> delete the old one.

Thanks! That was the impression I was getting. I'll just leave this
alone then.