Re: Make gnus-agent another mail backend?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>
>> The last time the issue was up, the problem was how to do the
>> changes.  IMAP doesn't support editing of messages, so the only way to
>> do the editing, would be to download the article, delete the article
>> in the IMAP folder, and upload the edited article as a new article.
>>
>> OK for small articles, but it could have unexpected effects if all you
>> wanted to do was rethread an article with a large attachment, while
>> connected to the IMAP server with a slow link.
>
> That's up to the user, though.  If it's too slow editing an IMAP
> message, then it's too slow.  If not, not.  So I think nnimap should
> support article editing.

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, maybe something faster
than editing the article could be used.  Hm.  Perhaps doing this would
make it possible to rethread articles in nntp groups as well.