Re: nnimap: editing articles

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 07 2006, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>
>> Well and it does not work, because when I save, and reenter the buffer
>> the editing result is not there anymore. How should the editing
>> solution work?
>
> Article editing isn't implemented in the nnimap back end.  I'm not
> sure if the protocol (IMAP) allows it.  Simon?

It doesn't support it.  Messages are read-only in IMAP.

> IIRC someone suggested to move the article to a local group, edit it
> and move it back to IMAP might be a workaround.  Thunderbird 1.5
> supports deleting and detaching (stripping) attachments which works
> also on IMAP.  I just tried it and it seems to me, they do something
> similar.  At least when looking at the "modified" article with Gnus, I
> saw an `N' (`gnus-recent-mark') and the article number is different.

Yup, you'll have to create a new message.

Gnus' editing functionality assume that if you edit article X, it will
be called X after the editing too.  I.e., it doesn't refresh group
information, and doesn't understand when the new article is called Y.
Perhaps that can be fixed, so that 'e' works.  OTOH, perhaps using 'e'
will simply give wrong impressions.  With IMAP, you don't actually
edit the article.  Perhaps some command that will download an article,
put you into an editing buffer, and have a command, say, C-c C-c
"save" it by querying for a destination group (which could be any
group) and then save the new article to that group.  This sounds
rather useful, actually.  Perhaps this is already possible...