From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85027 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: should we be able to edit imap messages? Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:26:43 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <878ul8k8vg.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87d2fvwen7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87bnvffapn.fsf@dod.no> <8738gquvr0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <8738gqlzat.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411594235 25187 80.91.229.3 (24 Sep 2014 21:30:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:30:35 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M33271@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 24 23:30:28 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XWu8o-0001wp-Sy for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 23:30:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XWu8f-000806-Ju; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:30:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XWu8d-0007zf-VR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:30:15 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XWu8T-0006sK-L0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:30:15 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XWu8S-0004ib-7a for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 23:30:04 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XWu8R-0001WT-H6 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 23:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 23:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 23:30:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2Ja+N6U+lFCSnKcflRVXMI23Gmg= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85027 Archived-At: On Sun, 04 May 2014 16:32:10 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: EA> Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen : >> >>> 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