From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31084 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kim-Minh Kaplan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: edit nnimap messages Date: 19 May 2000 12:49:28 +0200 Organization: Gnus Information Center Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87hfbu95mv.fsf@kloug.western.fr> References: <200005161704.TAA27903@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <87d7mm1jjv.fsf@isil.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167534 12038 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCBFD051E for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 06:49:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAB22288; Fri, 19 May 2000 05:49:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 19 May 2000 05:49:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA26965 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 05:49:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [193.69.4.139]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79275D051E for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 06:49:30 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA17134 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 19 May 2000 12:51:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ext0.western.fr Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 958733479 12532 195.101.52.157 (19 May 2000 10:51:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 May 2000 10:51:19 GMT Mail-Copies-To: poster X-Face: C!5Mk_!qB]35}VpD|H>GN/@fk%~7:*/x8&~\]|r|)/zV?rJ){uX4Nh`a$L/z__Kx4Gt!mDU 3kZlj)F2]Ds$?l';SO9]v^|[i2nY`pZ+mu+HT%5ITkuP#e]@8F4@Hc.=]oN1+d\M@Rl>-$C?h$yntf -JVx)3L2}VzG.!bQEy]~I_3fup`HtZ^t/Iz.|Vh$~o`^g\ User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31084 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31084 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.