Re: nnimap article editing

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Oct 10 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> 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?)

I think the behavior should be as close to the local back ends (nnml,
nnfolder, nnmaildir, ...) as possible.  I'd expect the old article to
be deleted, but maybe marking it as expirable might be sufficient
(especially during a testing period of this feature).

A typical usage for article editing is to strip or externalize large
attachments.  If the original article isn't deleted, the space is not
released (think of IMAP quotas).

But other users may have a different usage pattern, so it might make
sense to make it customizable and/or prompt after editing.

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

ACK.

Please keep in mind not to commit new features to the trunk until we
decided about the Gnus development during Emacs feature freeze, see
<http://thread.gmane.org/87wsi91d8d.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>.
(I didn't have time to push this issue further after my vacations.)

Bye, Reiner.
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