On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 12:40 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 15:53 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 15:33 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 14:29 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 12:42 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 10:56 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 16:18 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > > AFAIK, no there isn't, but it would be nice. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > No doubt purists will object that this constitutes modifying the > > > > message > > > > > > > (and invalidating any digital signatures it might have). I still > > > > think > > > > > > > it would be a Good Thing (TM) though. > > > > > > > > > > > > it's also not possible to do for all mail store types. > > > > > > > > > > It's possible with mbox and IMAP. > > > > > > > > oh really? please elaborate :) > > > > > > Existence proof: IMP (widely used IMAP webmail client) does it. > > > > The IMAP protocol does not provide any way of doing this. IMP must go > > behind the IMAP server's back, which is something a client cannot do. > > I've done some testing with IMP to see exactly what it does. It's fairly > simple: IMP gets the message MIME structure from the server (the IMAP > protocol provides for this) and then creates a new message with a short > comment substituted for the deleted attachment. It then creates a new > message on the server (using IMAP APPEND I think, just as Evo does with > Post New Message to Folder and presumably Save Draft) and deletes the > old one. The new message is identical to the old one (same headers, > Message-ID etc.) except for a new UUID. > > It does not "go behind the IMAP server's back".
As a followup to this topic, I just noticed the following draft RFC of a proposed IMAP extension to allow the construction a new message on the IMAP server using parts of an old message: http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/06mar/IDs/draft-ietf-lemonade-catenate-05.txt AFAIK no current IMAP server supports this extension directly, but I guess it's evidence that there's some demand for it. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
