From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67551 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap article editing Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:52:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223553175 6080 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2008 11:52:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 11:52:55 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16002@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Oct 09 13:53:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Knu5Q-0004T5-Ml for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:53:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Knu3t-0003dx-AD; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:52:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Knu3s-0003dc-2p for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:52:08 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Knu3p-0003f2-Hw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:52:08 -0500 Original-Received: from m61s02.vlinux.de ([83.151.21.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Knu3v-0007nc-00 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:52:11 +0200 Original-Received: from kafka.physik3.gwdg.de ([134.76.92.48]) by m61s02.vlinux.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Knu4y-0000al-Jc for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:53:16 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Didier Verna's message of "Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:20:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2.90 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67551 Archived-At: Didier Verna 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