Dear George, I think your idea is great. I do not have anything to add. Your proposal is quite well thought out and well-worded.
How can we make it happen? Dinbandhu On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 14:14 -0400, George Reeke wrote: > Dear Dinbandhu (and list), > I brought up this same subject on this list a couple of years ago. > I was told that this will never be put in evolution. It seems the > developers have (had at that time?) a strong moral stance that one > should not be able to edit incoming mail, but only preserve an exact > copy of it. You can't even delete unwanted attachments easily. > I surmise that this is because in certain corporate contexts, one > might need unaltered copies for legal purposes. > I consider that this position is ridiculous, because anybody > who wants to alter an incoming email can do so with a text editor. > So it is just a matter of convenience, not of principle. Those > of us who would like to write notes to ourselves, who are not > concerned with legal issues, should be able to do so. > The proposal I made at the time, which I hoped would satisfy > both kinds of users, was ignored. Let me suggest it again; I still > think it is a good idea: Why not have a configuration option in > evolution that could be changed only by the root user (at install > time) that would either allow or disallow the editing of incoming > mails? That way, those of us who administer our own systems could > have this feature if we want it; those in organizations where > software is centrally administered could be duly deprived of it. > Naturally, this would apply to mail downloaded via POP3; I have > no idea whether it is workable with IMAP. > Any more discussion? > George Reeke, Ph.D. > Laboratory of Biological Modelling > The Rockefeller University > 1230 York Avenue > New York, NY 10021 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 09:52 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > > If someone could reply on this below point I would be very grateful. It > > really has a lot of value and I need to know how to do it. Thanks! > > > > ------------------ > > > > Is there a way in Evolution to write notes for myself in letters that > > others have written to me? > > > > That is, letters that have come in to my in-box, can I write comments to > > myself in them? For example, say someone has written a letter to me in > > Spanish or some other language which is not my own. If there is a word > > in their letter which I do not know and I look it up in the dictionary, > > can I then write that definition into their letter as a note to myself? > > That way, whenever I re-open their letter in the future to read it, I > > will be able to see that I looked up the word and wrote its meaning > > right there in the letter. > > > > So obviously, I do not refer to when one click's on "reply" to the > > letter. But rather, being able to write right inside their letter > > itself. > > > > Many thanks, > > Swarup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Evolution-list mailing list > > Evolution-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
