Re: Make gnus-agent another mail backend?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> 
> > Yes, but IMHO only if it would work as you would expect -- that the
> > articles was changed on the IMAP server, and not locally to one
> > installation.  And nnimap provides the interface to do this, just
> > -request-article the article, edit it and when done, -expire the old
> > article and -request-accept the copy.  I guess `e' could be modified to do 
> > this, unless the backend supports true editing via replacing.
> 
> So it would _not_ work to write nnimap-request-replace-article, which
> does nnimap-request-accept-article on the changed version and then
> nnimap-request-expire-articles on the old one?

No, doing so would lose information related to the message number.  I 
guess nnimap could make sure all flags stored at the server on the old 
message could be copied onto the new one, but there is other information 
that would be lost (bookmarks, scores, ...) so maybe that solution causes 
more problem than it solves?