Re: [Fwd: Re: Questions about IMAP and sequences]

[Dan Harkless]

Ralph Corderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Well, the real crux of the problem is that there are some things
> > > that you simply cannot _do_ within the context of IMAP.  The big
> > > one that comes to mind is annotations (there really isn't a way to
> > > modify messages on the server, from my reading of the
> > > specification).
> > 
> > Ouch, that really bites.  That was one of the first questions that
> > popped into my mind when I first started hearing about IMAP, but I've
> > been too lazy to find out if you could do that or not.  The fact that
> > messages are individual text files is one of the biggest wins of nmh
> > for me.
> 
> Me too.  I reformat crappy emails with lines 120 chars long, delete
> large HTML duplicates that add nothing if I want to keep the mail, etc.
> 
> Couldn't nmh develop into having multiple back-ends for different
> formats and cope with some formats not allowing some operations?  Then
> anno on IMAP would gracefully fail.

Well, anno might be implementable via the IMAP "tags" facility, no?

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