Re: nnimap and reparenting (IMAP and article editing)

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> Can reparenting ("T ^" in the summary buffer) be supported with
> nnimap?  I guess in a wider sense this means: can article editing be
> supported with nnimap?
> 
> Will IMAP support article editing?

You can't change the contents of an article in IMAP. What we can do
is, of course, fetch the article, change it, and create a new
article. I don't know if that will map with how Gnus does article
editing -- the article number would change, probably this breaks
everything.

I've added "look into article editing" to the todo list though.

> I do a lot of that too: change MIME types for the broken MUAs that
> put application/octet-stream on all attachments (Notes Mail,
> MSExpress, Outlook prior to 98).

Can't we have a Gnus function for displaying an attachments as some
other MIME type?  It would require extra work every time you view the
article so it's not exactly what you'd want.

> Does anyone know if the UoW server supports it?

No IMAP server support it. IMHO this is a good design choice.

One idea is to use the ANNOTATE extension which lets you make
annotation to articles, I don't think it was meant to be used
internally by the client but I haven't read the RFC.