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>>>>> "kg" =3D=3D Kai Gro=DFjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>=
 writes:

    kg> I really wish it was possible to edit IMAP messages.  (I'm
    kg> looking for `T ^' to be precise.)

As has been noted before, this is a protocol issue.  IMAP messages are
immutable.  Therefore, to do what you want, you'd have to remove the
old message and append a new one which would be nearly identical (but
which would have a different id on the server, different flags, etc.).

John.