From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnimap article editing
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:52:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kz8wsy2dgd.fsf@kafka.physik3.gwdg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <muxbpxuvzlt.fsf@uzeb.lrde.epita.fr> (Didier Verna's message of "Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:20:46 +0200")
Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> writes:
>nnimap doesn't support article editing
Yes, because the IMAP protocol doesn't allow it.
> So am I correct in assuming that we could implement nnimap article
> editing by simply downloading the article, editing it, destroying the
> old version and uploading the new one ?
That's how other mail clients do it, e.g. for removing attachments from
articles to save space on the server. The problem with this approach is
that the edited article gets a new UID from the server (and hence a new
article number in Gnus), which can lead to problems regarding sorting,
caching, calculation of article numbers, etc.
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 10:20 Didier Verna
2008-10-09 11:52 ` David Engster [this message]
2008-10-09 13:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-09 14:58 ` David Engster
2008-10-09 17:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-09 17:36 ` Reiner Steib
2008-10-09 19:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-09 20:02 ` Christoph Conrad
2008-10-09 20:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-09 21:23 ` Christoph Conrad
2008-10-09 20:45 ` Reiner Steib
2008-10-10 13:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-10 18:14 ` Reiner Steib
2008-10-13 13:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-11-03 15:25 ` Gnus CVS checkins (was: nnimap article editing) Ted Zlatanov
2008-11-03 20:19 ` Gnus CVS checkins Reiner Steib
2008-11-03 20:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
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