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Re: nnimap vs. nnmaildir
From: |
David Engster |
Subject: |
Re: nnimap vs. nnmaildir |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:48:22 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>> - [nnimap or nnmaildir] ability to edit articles
>>
>> You can't edit in nnimap, but you can do:
>>
>> - move to nnml/nnmaildir group
>> - `e'dit
>> - move back
>
> I assume that you also can't save-and-delete attachments in nnimap?
> I use that *a lot*...
No, you can't do that with nnimap.
> If I'm right, do you think it's something that would be hard to add?
You can't delete attachments from an article with IMAP. I know that some
mail clients claim to do this, but they're actually creating a new
article and delete the old one. One could script something similar in
Gnus, but outside of nnimap.
-David