On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 23:12 -0600, Sankar P wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 21:34 -0400, Dinbandhu wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 21:11 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > I would support a facility for annotations (or memos if you prefer) as > > > long as it can be done in a cross-platform way. > > > > > > However in a larger sense, this kind of discussion illustrates that the > > > traditional view of email is coming under strain. For many people, their > > > email store is where they conveniently keep and index all kinds of > > > random information, and I think MUAs are falling behind in supporting > > > this usefully. Time to invent Email-2.0? > > > > I would like to know, do most other modern e-mail programs offer this > > facility of editing in-coming mail, or not? Linux-based, Windows-based, > > Mac-based-- whatever it may be, what is the current norm among most > > e-mail programs? Does Thunderbird offer it, does Outlook offer it, does > > Eudora offer it? > > Hrm. I missed the thread. > > Understand that, Not all servers/protocols allow to modify the contents > of a mail. So as poc mentioned in his mail, if the protocol (IMAP) does > not support it, no IMAP client can support it, with changes synced to > server. > > > Since my ancient Eudora software dating back to 1997 offers it, I > > presumed that other, more current software must as well. What is the > > usual facility in other current programs in this regard? > > Did your mail-client software offered a way by which you can sync-up > these changes to the server ? If so, have you ever ensured that the > edited mail is same as the one that you received in the first place ? > > It will be done in Evolution in a way by which you can create notes on > Evolution side (will not be synced to server) and will be associated to > the mail. Whenever the mail is opened, the associated-data will also be > displayed.
I think that would probably cover the great majority of needs. I'd still like to delete large attachments (I suspect most attachments are saved locally anyway), but I can understand why that causes issues. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
