On 7 Feb 2012, at 9:57, Bob Stern wrote: > Permit editing of subject and body of received or sent messages > (without creating a new outgoing message).
This violates the standards and it would be inefficient with respect to IMAP servers. The only way to update a message on an IMAP server is to delete it and then upload a new one (then imagine a message with a 10MB attachment). > This is an important feature to long-time Eudora users. I have had a request once before for the editing of the subject line. This was for correcting bad subject lines. If I implemented a solution for that then it would be by using some kind of alternative subject line shown instead of the real subject line. The problem is that this would only work locally (not uploaded to the IMAP server). I'm not sure why you would want to edit the body of a message (other than stripping attachments which is a feature not implemented yet), but I assume it is because you would like to add some notes for later reference? If this is the case then I have considered some kind of note-system implemented by saving notes in a (special) reply to the message. These notes could (optionally) be in a separate mailbox and MailMate could hide this mailbox and instead show the notes inline with the original message. But I haven't done any work on that. > Editing the subject is very important to ensure it includes keywords > that intersect smart mailboxes and searches. Ok, that sounds more like a request for better tagging support in MailMate, but I can see how you could use the subject line to do this. > The editing of the message body should include adding color, bold, > italic and underline to selected text. Color is very important > because it is more conspicuous than the other attributes. Sorry, but that's not on the todo. Just being honest. Part of the explanation can be found here: http://blog.freron.com/2011/thoughts-on-writing-emails-using-markdown/ -- Benny
