Re: nnimap article editing revisited

[John Prevost <prevost@maya.com>]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> 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...:-)

It's also not an option on systems with a sealed server, like Cyrus.
Under Cyrus, you can't get at messages except through the server.
(Well, you can, but then you also have "little" issues with having to
update various cache files which the server mmaps into memory for
speed.)

Better just to remember that in IMAP terms, a message is immutable.
Any annotations you want to do should be remembered in some other way,
or should be user-defined flags.  Any "corrections" should be done
before the message hits the server, or when it's re-filed, if you're
willing to suck it down and then send it back up.

John.