From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42663 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Make gnus-agent another mail backend? Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:57:30 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200201100209.g0A29gx29335@reader.local.lan> <87d6zw6ebt.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87y9ik162h.fsf@bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177874 13025 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:24:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 22156 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2002 20:58:24 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2002 20:58:24 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16UwNB-0000Y0-00; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:57:57 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:57:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA03734 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:57:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 22145 invoked by alias); 27 Jan 2002 20:57:37 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22140 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2002 20:57:36 -0000 Original-Received: from ingebrigtsen.no (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Jan 2002 20:57:36 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16UwPq-0001S7-00 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:00:42 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1012165242 5440 195.204.10.148 (27 Jan 2002 21:00:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jan 2002 21:00:42 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Four Tet's _Paws_: "Glue of the World" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: #<+l+l~H#dG#Iw6MNwYMO$Lx=>dcjnWvU4/UEFwM3R3+(50vDiOj,m}tSNFE4::'MN&gjm9 :Z5B0, writes: > 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. How does nnimap do the message/article number mapping? Would nnimap be able to preserve the message/article number mapping after deleting the original message and inserting the edited message? > Perhaps doing this would make it possible to rethread articles in > nntp groups as well. I don't think re-threading is the primary concern. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen