On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 15:28 +0100, guenther wrote: > > Why does it matter if you alter the original message and the message > > id stays the same? > > Well, I just mentioned OTOH what was already discussed before. Please > see the archives for the actual previous discussions and all the > arguments as well as the relevant RFCs. > > Anything that changes the message itself effectively makes it another > message. It's simply not the original one. > > This won't work in all cases anyway. Removing attachments of a signed > message (*/Mime, including attachments) for example breaks the > signature.
Is it possible to have separate signatures for the main text and the attachments? If so this problem could be solved this way. > > It is extremely useful to delete attachments. In fact, it is > > extremely useful to edit emails themselves, as sometimes I want to > > annotate the original email. > > I can't agree here. > > If you want to annotate a mail, the application *must* provide some > logic to assign your annotations to the mail and the exact part of it. > Stored separately from the original mail. It must not edit the message. > Annotations, not revisions. > > In fact, annotations and a smart way of managing and searching them > would be a really useful feature. As long as the original mail stays the > unaltered original mail. > > ...guenther A thing just recently discovered: If I attach a file I cannot preview it before submitting it! Isn't this a missing feature?? Perhaps one want to check that the correct file was attached and review it's content?? Or is this a part of the whole story about attachments, don't allow any changes. Svante _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
