From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: should we be able to edit imap messages?
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:26:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ul8k8vg.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738gqlzat.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
On Sun, 04 May 2014 16:32:10 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
EA> 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.
EA> Yeah, but then when you sync the server thinks it has a new message, and
EA> if you're using other clients elsewhere, they all get the "new" message,
EA> and... it just ends up feeling wrong, I think
Well, you can't edit IMAP messages by design, it would break the whole
protocol :) But I think appending the modified version is really quite
reasonable, it's a rare thing.
Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-24 21:26 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
2014-05-05 23:29 ` Dan Christensen
2014-09-24 21:26 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
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