From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84509 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: should we be able to edit imap messages? Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 11:55:16 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87bnvffapn.fsf@dod.no> References: <87d2fvwen7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399110963 10458 80.91.229.3 (3 May 2014 09:56:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 09:56:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32755@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 03 11:55:56 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 1WgWfh-0001yS-5i for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2014 11:55:53 +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 1WgWfT-000558-Rs; Sat, 03 May 2014 04:55:39 -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 1WgWfS-00054y-3K for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 03 May 2014 04:55:38 -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 1WgWfQ-0001Pk-Ml for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 03 May 2014 04:55:38 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WgWfP-00075R-9g for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 03 May 2014 11:55:35 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WgWfJ-0008DC-9f for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 03 May 2014 11:55:29 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no ([84.208.248.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2014 11:55:29 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2014 11:55:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0sKawk1EMqzgJ1YSjkARUa5JHwQ= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84509 Archived-At: >>>>> Eric Abrahamsen : > 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.