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Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>>>>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>:
>
>> The IMAP protocol doesn't support article editing via replacing.  If
>> article editing is to be supported anyway, something in Gnus needs to
>> be done, but I never edit articles so I don't know what is expected --
>> if the only use would to re-thread articles, 
>
> Personally I've done two things: rethreading, and fixing MIME types
> (turning application/octet-stream into something useful).

I often wish I could strip attachments. One of my IMAP accounts has a
ridiculously low quota.. 


Bjørn
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