[imp] Features and such

Jon Parise jon@csh.rit.edu
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:32:01 -0500


On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 06:05:54PM -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> > Also, he wants to know about the possibility of deleting just the
> > attachment, and not the message. I'm not sure it's possible. Thanks.
> 
> I do not know of a sane way to do this over IMAP.

I started looking at doing this over the summer, and it's a real
headache.  It's basically impossible to modify an existing message in
the mailbox; we'd have to delete the original message and append the
new, modified one.

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member