Re: Make gnus-agent another mail backend?

[grossjoh@lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Kai Großjohann)]

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

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> 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?

IMAP has article numbers, nnimap just uses them.

>> 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.

Back when I was still using nnml, I used `T ^' much more often than
`e' or any other way to edit a message.  I think once nnimap supports
rethreading, `T ^' will account for a sizable proportion of the
article edits.

kai
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