On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:09:56PM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote: > > anyway when does one want to edit messages, it's not something I've > > ever wanted to do. > > I used to have the same opinion before I had a mailer that made it so > easy. With mutt I do occasionally edit messages: > > - to use a message in my inbox as a primitive to-do list, or for > notes, or to hold a list of URLs that I want to remember to view > at some later time. > > - to remove uneeded attachments when archiving a discussion thread. > For example a co-worker produces some software my own project > depends on, and has lately been mailing me prerelease versions for > testing. I want to keep the discussion itself, but I don't need > all of the attachments since most of them have been superceded by > later versions.
I frequently edit entire threads in order to circulate their contents -- with redundant quotes and attachments removed and headers pruned -- as digests. I wouldn't know how to do that efficiently if I couldn't just edit the mbox file with vim. Tom -- Tom Baker <tba...@tbaker.de>
