Re: nnimap article editing revisited

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>:

>>>>> Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>:
>> Mark Plaksin <happy@arches.uga.edu> writes:
>>> Is there a way to get the functionality of nnmail-remove-list-identifiers
>>> in nnimap groups?

>> No, this is impossible -- you simply can't edit articles with IMAP.

> Except maybe through the trick you thought about: deleting the old
> article and inserting a new article with a new UID.

Hm... an alternative solution would be to provide a mapping from
nnimap message to something ange-ftp could use.

Of course that would require having knowledge about the file structure 
and folder format on the server.

It would also be hell on messages with large attachments...

Just a thought...:-)