Re: nnml -> nnimap (preserving Xrefs)

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> > It doesn't.  IMAP doesn't support the concept of cross-posting.
> > Right now, the article is simply copied into all mailboxes.  And
> > until more servers support the ANNOTATE draft, there's no way we can
> > attach any (such as a Xref header) information on the article.
> 
> Hm... does the annotate draft open for replacements of headers?  Or
> does it only allow insertion of new ones?  (I'm thinking of
> re-parenting of articles)

It does have a field to replace the "subject" line.  I brought up the
idea of replacing that with a flexible scheme, to modify any header as
per user wishes.  I don't recollect the arguments, but noone seemed to
rejoice over the suggestion.

The draft allow for vendor specific stuff though.  When I install a
server that support annotations and get some time to play with it,
I'll add a vendor specific way for reparenting.

There's another draft to do threading on the server.  It doesn't look
like it ever will support user re-parenting though. :-/