re: Why is a message immutable? (new thread since I'm starting a new topic)

I was expecting an entirely different rationale for wanting to change
message content.  In particular, some systems allow a message recipient
to change the message "subject".  I'd be interested in some way to handle
this via imap4 (other than deleting the old message and creating a new
one with the changed subject).  I agree that actually changing what the
originator sent is not a good idea.  How about supporting some mechanism
for clients to fetch/modify/delete textual message attributes (vaguely
similar to flags/keywords, but able to contain more than 1 bit of data)?
For the particular application I'm thinking of to be useful across
clients, a "system" attribute would have to be defined (perhaps
\annotation, which would default to the sender's subject but
could be changed).


Rick Block
Avaya Inc.
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