From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84506 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: should we be able to edit imap messages? Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 14:38:20 +0800 Message-ID: <87d2fvwen7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399103170 15477 80.91.229.3 (3 May 2014 07:46:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 07:46:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32752@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 03 09:46:03 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 1WgUe2-0003mV-Mk for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2014 09:46:02 +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 1WgUdH-0004R2-3I; Sat, 03 May 2014 02:45:15 -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 1WgUdD-0004QZ-BK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 03 May 2014 02:45:11 -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 1WgUdA-0000uw-3H for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 03 May 2014 02:45:08 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WgUd7-0004Kj-O9 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 03 May 2014 09:45:05 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WgUd6-0005SE-Jj for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 03 May 2014 09:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 114.248.25.95 ([114.248.25.95]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2014 09:45:04 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 114.248.25.95 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2014 09:45:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.248.25.95 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SSNUNgSTWEyW0GbnhiaD6uGnviI= X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84506 Archived-At: 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 fooling around with editing messages to add custom headers, only for local use. I can edit my messages and add the headers, and save the message again, but I'm not sure what happens when I sync dovecot with the remote servers. Will this create a new message with a new Message-ID? If so, I won't bother doing it. But I'm not quite sure how "immutable" is supposed to play out in this case... Thanks, Eric