Re: edit nnimap messages

[Kim-Minh Kaplan <kmkaplan@vocatex.fr>]

John Prevost writes:

> Kai Großjohann writes:
> 
> > I really wish it was possible to edit IMAP messages.  (I'm
> > 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.).

On the nnimap mailing list there was some threads on how we could work
around this limitation.

One idea was to have the message deleted then added again like you
describe.

Another one by Simon Josefsson is to add a special Gnus folder to
store additional information about edited articles.

But the idea I found most interesting was:

    IMHO Gnus should not modify the mail to achieve this -- "fixing"
    articles should be at the display level.  Also, if we do this stuff at
    the display level at will be more general, ie it would work with nntp,
    nnmh etc.                          -- Simon Josefsson.

I really love this idea.  Does it appeal to people ?  I might even try
to implement such a thing...

Kim-Minh.